Hi Mike, Thanks a lot for that... I'll try work through it for the afternoon. To confirm, is the Open Source Marker Manager the one located at: http://gmaps-utility-library-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanager/
On Nov 13, 11:40 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > If you've only got a few thousand, then MarkerManager will do the job. > Simply specify that all the markers have their minZoom set to 16. > > In fact MarkerManager will cope with many thousands of markers, but the > time needed to fetch the data for many thousands of markers starts to > become significant. (Estimate the fetch time by taking the length of > data for one location, multiply by the estimated number of locations, > multiply by 10 and divide by a million to get the approximate time in > seconds on a 1 megaBit/sec broadband connection.) > > If that time starts to look excessive, consider using server side marker > management. > > Hints: > > Use one manager.addMarkers() call, and manager.refresh(), rather than > thousands of manager.addMarker() calls. > > Use the Open Source MarkerManager. It's got some fixes that > GMarkerManager doesn't. > > You can reduce the amount of data per location in the initial load by > removing the infowindow data from that file and fetching it from a > server for an individual location only when it's actually needed. > > -- > Mike Williamshttp://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=.
