On 1 February 2010 13:40, bratliff <bratl...@umich.edu> wrote: > On Feb 1, 8:39 am, Ben Appleton <apple...@google.com> wrote: > > Very interesting explanation. > > Slightly off-topic but closely related: > > What is the purpose of "&s=Galileo" ?
Firefox caches page components using a hash of the url as the key, rather than the URL itself. Unfortunatly some similar tile urls ended up getting the same hash, so that param was added to add a bit of entropy ;) (apparently anyway) > > Have you considered dropping the "cookie" parameter on Satellite tiles > to improve caching across sessions and/or with proxies ? > > http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1655 > > The API V2 & API V3 use different tile name conventions which means > cached tiles cannot be shared among applications running different > versions of the API. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
