Indeed. Your (large) KML file will be rendered by the Google servers as a custom tile layer and be much faster than manually adding those thousands of markers to the map manually as GMarkers.
Martin. On 13 Sep, 15:00, youngpip <[email protected]> wrote: > For anyone else with this issue, I found that pulling in a KML file of > points made scrolling much much smoother. > > On Sep 10, 4:41 pm, youngpip <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, I have a map (V2) which plots abut 2 thousand points using > > GMarkerManager. I don't have an issue with how fast Google renders > > them, it's just the scrolling around of the map and zooming which is > > slow and jerky. > > > I found somebody who plotted many many points yet still kept it lovely > > and smooth to scroll around and wondered how they did > > it:http://www.fuelmate.co.uk/garage-locator > > > From closer inspection, it seems they have png tiles containing > > multiple dots which are then overlaid onto the map data, so it's a lot > > smoother to scroll. I can't find any documentation on this method > > though. > > > Can anyone help? -- 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.
