On Jan 24, 3:51 am, st7070 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Google Maps V3 Group, > > Any info you could provide on the following would be much > appreciated - > > I'm developing a web site which needs to display a very high amount > of layer information to the user, in the form of polygons and > polylines; the site uses Google Maps v3.3 javascript. In short - > there are alot of polygons to render to the user. > > The challenge is that this layer information (the polygons and > polylines, > which are tailored to the user interacting with the site, and which > are processed and generated on my web server) needs to be _private_ > to the user.
Will the map be public? If not you will need a premier license. > > As I understand it, however, Google Maps only allows KML overlays > from _publicly_ accessible URLs - "These data formats are displayed > on a map using a KmlLayer object, whose constructor takes the URL of > a publicly accessible KML or GeoRSS file" > (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html), > and this has been briefly discussed previously by the group > (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ms...) > > My query is - is there any way my web server can offer or forward a > private KML-like object model to the Google server (or indeed > anything representing my polygons) in order for the Google server to > enact what it usually does when it takes a public KML? > > In other words, is there any way other than via a public KML, that > the Google map server can read all the polygons and polylines from > my site (without them being public)? > > Here are some alternative solutions I've investigated which are not > good enough for my site performance wise - > > # parsing of a local text file and constructing all the polygons > directly via website (e.g instantiating many > Polygon instances). > Result - too slow. > > # using 3rd party tools to parse and render the polygons directly > via website (e.g GeoXML3,http://code.google.com/p/geoxml3/) > Result - similarly, too slow for my site considering the number of > polygons. For my website, the 3rd party KML parsing tools haven't > helped. > There are alot of polygons and they really need to be processed by > the Google server. > > So, any way this can be done other than through a publicly > accessible KML? Have you tried using your server to create tiles? -- Larry > > Thank you > E -- 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.
