On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:42:51AM -0800, maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru] wrote: ... > of years ago, why create tiles that will never be used? Instead, > create them on the fly and cache them. The first user of the tile may > experience some delay while it is being built, but subsequent viewers > of the data will see near instantaneous results. The way to achieve > this is to use a tile server program that first checks to see if there > is a tile already there and if not, dynamically builds it, stores it > and serves it to the user.
Yep. You may also want to think about a method of invalidating/expiring the cache for updates. You'll probably want to be able to limit that by region to only pick up necessary changes. Karl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
