On Jan 24, 10:07 am, alexis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to geoxml3 and have two questions I was hoping to get some
> help with.
>
> 1. What is the expected behavior for setting the zoom:true option on
> the parser?
>
> In this simple sample I have up, I load a tiny kml file 
> (http://www.geochemie.uni-bremen.de/kml/kml.html) and set
> the zoom:true option. However, it seems to zoom all the way in to the closest
> setting! Is that expected behavior?
>
> See the sample at:http://alexisgo.com/maps/index.html

It should zoom to display the contents of the kml file.  I don't see
an example that uses geoxml3 at either of those two urls.

>
> 2. Is geoxml3 ok to use for mobile?
>
> I am trying to use quite a large data set (http://www.nyc.gov/html/
> dot//downloads/misc/cityracks.kml). I am able to slowly get the full
> data set to load in the browser, but when I test it in mobile Safari
> using Dashcode, it always times out.

1.75 MB is a little large for a mobile browser.  You might want to
make it smaller (so you could use KmlLayer).

  -- Larry

>
> Some background/context:
> The reason I wanted to use geoxml3 is to try and approximate what is
> going on here, but for mobile (see bike 
> map):http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cityracks.html.
>
> What is great about what they've done already is that they've used
> clustering to solve the "too many markers" problem, I believe in
> reading through it, they are doing so using a custom 
> js,http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/includes/scripts/bikeracks_clusterer2.jsm
>
> The problem is, much of their code uses v2 of the maps API, and I
> figured why not update it. Am experimenting bit by bit to figure out
> how best to cluster such a big dataset in v3 with a kml file as my
> source... KmlLayer works great, but there are too many markers.
> Loading the data set with geoxml3 on mobile causes a time out.
>
> Anyway, any help with questions 1 & 2 would be much appreciated!
>
> Alexis

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