On Apr 7, 6:55 am, Ben Pinkerton <[email protected]> wrote: > So I have a database containing several thousand coordinates (lat/long > + postcode). My question is this - how does one go about rendering > these with the map api. It strikes me that you can't push all of them > to the map at once, so how do people achieve this? > > My initial thoughts were to get the lat/long boundaries of the map on > page load/change and then return database items that fall within those > boundaries via ajax. So if you zoom out/pan, then it will return the > new data. > > I've looked about for info on this subject but haven't been able to > find anything - and I figured that what I'm trying to do is not an > uncommon thing in the GM api world. > > Any help/advice is appreciated! >
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