I recently tested a map application with a total amount of 1000
polylines, consisting of 2 vertexes each. The loading time is about 4s
using a 3,6GHZ Intel and Firefox. This is acceptable, however I am
aware of the fact that not all people use such a system. I dont want
to know whats the loading time with an Eee PC :P

I think I will try to use tile laer overlays, as you said.

Thanks!

Erik

On Mar 28, 2:10 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's acceptable performance is very subjective and depends on the
> hardware, Internet connection speed and browser. Unless you know that
> your user is using Chrome or SpiderMonkey, my recommendation would be to
> not use more than 100 GPolyline overlays.
>
> Last I heard, using GGeoXml to render your KML limits you to 50 objects.
> Using EGeoXml or GeoXml to render your KML causes your lines to be
> displayed as GPolyline overlays, so that takes you back to the first
> case.
>
> A single transparent EInsert overlay is fine, as long as the image size
> isn't too large, but it becomes unwieldy if you need to show fine detail
> when the user zooms in.
>
> The ultimate solution is to create a tile layer overlay, with sets of
> transparent tiles for different zoom levels. You can either create the
> individual tile images beforehand, or write a server to generate each
> tile on demand, as happens here (with polygons rather than polylines,
> but the principle is the same):
>    http://maps.webfoot.com/HousingOverlays.php
>
> --http://econym.org.uk/gmap
> The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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