It looks like you're preloading the infowindow contents before creating the map. Your infowindows contain huge images which are then scaled down. E.g.
http://www.sundialsociety.org.uk/images/Kent/S3009.jpg is 685kb. The map doesn't get loaded until the "onload" event triggers, which occurs after all those 15 large images have been fetched. You end up displaying the image at 300x225 pixels, so you could save a lot of time by creating images of that size rather than 1648x2331. On a slow connection that could take quite a while. Skipping the preloading of the infowindow contents would also allow the map to display earlier in the proceedings. The downside would be that there would be the normal slight delay the first time each infowindow is opened as the image gets fetched, rather than the current instantaneous photo display. The underlay trick should work as long as your map div with underlay appears before you start preloading the infowindow contents, which appears to be the way you've got it configured. I don't know why that wouldn't work unless you repositioned your map div at the same tile that you added the underlay image. -- Mike Williams http://econym.org.uk/gmap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
