If you have a lot of markers, client side clustering is not the solution. You can give a try to our server-side clustering engine service: Maptimize We have a new version http://v2.maptimize.com. You can filter markers without refreshing the page. It's available as SaaS (freemium) or as a software.
Check out also our demo http://crunchpanorama.com to see how it works. Sébastien On Jun 8, 6:02 pm, Trey <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks John for the suggestion. A KML layer looks really interesting, > especially since the blog suggests you can render 50,000 features > without affecting performance. Do you know if you can cluster with > the KML layer? It seems like having 50k markers on the map would be a > little nuts, even if the performance is good. I guess I could do my > own clustering for some of the high zoom layers and just put a marker > out there that states theres x number of markers below that, then when > you're zoomed in to a certain level, show the KML layer. Is that what > you're thinking? > > Trey > > On Jun 7, 9:49 pm, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > The obvious answer that I can see is to remove the use of markers from > > your map and instead use some sort of pseudo marker. > > > My favorite in the situation you describe is to use a tile overlay > > embedded with the marker images. To open an infowindow for any > > particular marker, just pass the coordinate and zoom level to a server > > side program, which will return the data required. It's a lot more > > efficient and is scalable. > > > Here's a neat example that combines a tile layer and a KML to show > > volcano reports from around the world. > > >http://www.usnaviguide.com/volcanoes.htm > > > -John Coryat > > >http://maps.huge.info > > >http://www.usnaviguide.com > > >http://www.zipmaps.net -- 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.
