Another thing you might want to look into would be coupling marker manager in with the clustering. It can also limit the number of markers displayed at various zoom levels to give you even more control and optimization when using clusterer.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Liandri <[email protected]> wrote: > Yea, definitely look into clustering. I found this script for V3 very > straightforward: > > http://blog.fusonic.net/archives/195 > > Just add the each marker to the "fluster" and it will take care of the > rest. You can also customize the threshold for each icon color (don't > know if you can add more than three?) as well as the grid size. > > On Jun 30, 2:43 pm, Raphael Krut-Landau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a map set up at <http://openhatch.org/people/>. It has a couple > > thousand markers. When you scroll, the map shudders and hangs a bit. > > How can I make it faster? What do you do to keep a map displaying this > > much information scrolling smoothly? Are there "best practices" within > > Google Maps v3, or add-ons I should use? > > > > Note that the scrolling of this map is pretty fluid when there are > > fewer markers, e.g., <http://openhatch.org/people/?q=project > > %3ATwisted>. > > > > Best, > > > > Raphael > > > > p.s. Something we've thought about: We're generating the markers in > > JS. We could use KML, but we don't think that would make it go faster, > > because it's the scrolling that's slow, not the marker-making. > > -- > 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.
