Hello all, I've read a few posts about maps optimizations, and I'm reading through a few of the answers that the gurus have handed out, but I was hoping to get some personal advice regarding the site that I've built. The page is at: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~bittman/GrandCanyonPreliminaries/20409allworksnostyle.html
On my computer (XP laptop ~4 yrs old) and with my internet connection (my friends wireless dsl i believe) in Firefox the map loads within 5 seconds or so, the routes all load within about 10-20 seconds later and then the site reads feeds for the next 30sec to a minute while still being somewhat manipulable (I'm not using any sort of real timer, these are best guess approximations). In IE the page takes forever to load and often freezes the browser. I was hoping to get responses from the group as to how long it takes on their systems, and if they think that it would be acceptable (from a performance and function--not style--point of view) on a commercial website. I know that one of the ways that I could speed up performance would be to generate the polylines in a manner other than GDirections. I've been reading about encoded polylines, but the problem is that my collection of points is more like a collection of waypoints and I would like the lines to be smooth and along the roads as they are now. Is there some way that I could generate a list of points that correlate well enough to these routes that if i were to create a polyline from them they would appear as they do now? I don't really need the other stuff from GDirections (the list of turns, etc) so I think i should avoid using it if i can. Another problem is the load time for all of the hotel markers. I imagine that a clusterer would help here? Any suggestions at all really would be great. Thanks, Max --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
