One interesting method of polygon display is the whole image overlay
method. I use this in the following demo:

http://maps.huge.info/zipcolors.htm

This demo uses a total of around 31,000 polygons, so is comparable to
what you've got.

The idea here is to pre-render all polygons into images, one image per
polygon and render the images in several colors and zoom levels (three
colors, three zoom levels). The end result is very good performance,
ability to change the colors of the polygons dynamically and also
select the size of the image to use based on the bounds of the
display.

The downside is it's fairly complex to setup, both more complex and
yet simpler than tiles, depending on how you look at it. Skill level
wise, I rate this a 7 on a 1 to 10 scale.

-John Coryat

http://maps.huge.info

http://www.usnaviguide.com
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