Vectors need pre-simplification at zoomed out state the same as rasters do... tile them similarly and they ought to be smaller and faster to acquire over the web... ... they will require more clientside processing for display but with modern devices.. that is still less significant than it used to be (at least if the browsers had there ummm vector rendering code up to snuff)
On Aug 20, 7:24 pm, Artem Sav <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
