On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:40 AM, 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" ?
>

Barry answers below: this works around hash collisions in Firefox's cache.
 I don't know if recent versions of Firefox still have this issue.


> 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
>

Yes, we have considered this.


> 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.
>

We attempt to keep them in sync, though this matters a little less as v3
traffic grows.  I'll take another look.


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