I am serving .png tile overlays that periodically change. In the browser, if one of the tiles someone is currently looking at on their map canvas has changed, I want to tell the broswer to fetch the new version of the tile from the server.
I assume this means telling the Google Maps Overlay to refresh itself somehow? I saw a request for something like this for Flash API (which I know nothing about) but is this also avaliable using the javascript api? Here is where I saw the request: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=503 Just in case, to make the problem more concrete here is the sequence: 1. "tile_z_x_y" changed on the server -- say from the drawing of a red polygon from someone's recent disaster assessment report. 2. Periodically based on javascript code, the client sends requests to the server to compare if the tiles stored in its browser's cache have changed on the server's database (say with a recorded update time stamp). 3. If some one is looking at a tile on her browser that doesnt show the most recent information then the browser needs to somehow fetch this new overlay, without spending time reloading the whole Google Maps API. -- 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.
