I've filed a bug internally for tracking, we'll fix these issues. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:50 PM, bratliff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 8, 5:50 am, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We now queue image requests in JS, only fetching at most 12 images at a > > time. This allows to cancel requests if a tile falls out of view before > the > > request has been forwarded to the browser, which reduces latency for a > quick > > sequence of zooms. To recover from stalled tiles we abandon a tile fetch > > after 2 minutes. > > > > This can still fail in a few ways: > > > > - The bandwidth could be so low that loading 12 tiles x 25kB = 300kB > > takes more than 2 minutes. > > - The internet connection could drop out temporarily. > > - The page could be making many other HTTP requests, blocking our tile > > requests. > > > > I appreciate your feedback; we haven't finished optimizing tile loading > yet. > > > > The API does not reload a discarded tile if it returns > > But you agree the API should try again if the abandoned tile ever > returns to view - right ? > > Please make at least one attempt to resuscitate a stubborn tile. > > Please consider the tile to be just lazy if other tiles in the same > column or in the same row have been loaded successfully. > > Please attempt to fill any missing tile voids if the user changes zoom > level or changes map type. It it the only way a user can override the > API if the tile is declared missing. It works in V2. It used to work > in V3 (3.29). A user will not repeatedly change zoom levels or change > map types if the tiles are indeed missing. I believe Einstein defined > an idiot to be a person who repeats the same experiment expecting a > different result. > > I used to be able to do several consecutive zooms without waiting for > completion, pour myself a cup of coffee, return five minutes later to > find everything loaded. If an occasional tile failed to load, > returning to the same zoom level caused it to be reloaded. > > Please provide a way to access 3.29 or some other last known good > version. > > Thanks very much. > > -- > 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 > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- 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 [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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
