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

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