I've made a test using MarkerCluster and the speed has increased a lot! The only item working is "alojamientos" http://grancanaria.com/patronato_turismo/fileadmin/mapaGlobal/mapa_v5.php
regards, Miguel On Aug 19, 4:03 pm, Miguel Domínguez Matos <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't avoid caching but it takes some time to load and some times > markers don't load ( at all or at certain zoom levels ). > I found a very interesting link where you can compare load times of > each method, and KML is the slower one with difference. The first time > it takes a few seconds to load, the it seems to be cached, but if you > refresh the page it takes again a few seconds to load kml markers. > > http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/toomanymarkers/tooma... > > On Aug 19, 3:55 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Aug 19, 7:44 am, Miguel Domínguez Matos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There was a mistake and I related both problems. > > > Exactly, as you reported, the markers directory was missing. When the > > > API tried to get the icons it showed the blue ones instead. But the > > > blue icons were showing incorrectly as reported. > > > Now, with custom markers "alive" again, everything works fine. > > > Now we are planning to move out from KML because it is very > > > inefficient and takes a lot of time to load. > > > KmlLayer (and FusionTablesLayer) should load more quickly and perform > > better than equivalent numbers of native gmaps markers/polygons/ > > polylines for large numbers of objects since they generate tiles at > > google's servers. There is the overhead of generating the tiles, but > > they will be cached (unless you use cache busting techniques). > > > YMMV. > > > -- Larry > > > > Thanks for your help! ( I hate this stupid mistakes! ) > > > > On Aug 19, 3:22 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Aug 19, 5:55 am, Miguel Domínguez Matos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > We have a map working fine for some time but since a few weeks we are > > > > > having some problems. > > > > > The map get the markers from a KML, wich have custom markers using > > > > > different colors. > > > > > Now, the custom markers are not working anymore and all the markers > > > > > are the same ( the default blue one ). > > > > > Moreover, you know that the map loads as a grid. Each "square" is an > > > > > image area. Now, it only show markers for certain areas. Some times > > > > > the markers don't load at all ( this is a problem we had before ). > > > > > Since first time we were having problems with markers and kml as we > > > > > were early adopters of v3 api, wich I think it was not enough tested > > > > > to launch as production. KML is really slow system and I think we > > > > > should rewrite some things to have it working right. > > > > > You can see the map > > > > > here:http://www.grancanaria.com/patronato_turismo/Maps-of-Gran-Canaria.335... > > > > > Try to click in "accomodation" or "beaches" for example. > > > > > How about golf? > > > > This icon doesn't > > > > exist:http://www.netfactory.es/marcadores_mapa_ptgc/golf.png > > > > Beaches (playas), this icon doesn't > > > > exist:http://www.netfactory.es/marcadores_mapa_ptgc/playas.png > > > > > -- Larry > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Miguel -- 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.
