It is absolutely not guaranteed that vector will be faster than tiles. In fact, i think that in a big percentage of cases it will be slower - drawing a metro map at 10 zoom for example will need lots of vectors.
On Aug 20, 1:04 pm, adszhu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if the current image tile downloading method might be > replaced with fetching vector data and rendering it in canvas > elements... I assume GIS data (consisting of polygons, linestrings, > points and texts) can be handled easily using canvas elements. Even > the Earth-plugin might be replaced with this technology, though the > current 2D feature is far not the same powerful... > I'll give a try to render kml files alone, without maps in the > background --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
