No, rather the marker scaling triggers the slower DOM markers. Android brevity On Oct 13, 2011 9:45 PM, "Martin™" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. > > Are you implying that canvas markers will only be used if a > MarkerImage is constructed with a string URL only? > And that using the 'full' MarkerImage constructor with all properties > set will cause non-optimised markers? > > Or could the scaled size be passed as null to acheive optimised canvas > markers? > > Martin. > > > On Oct 14, 12:37 am, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your code triggers the older DOM markers as it specifies a scale: > > icon: new google.maps.MarkerImage( > > ' > http://viewranger.com/buddybeacon/v2/images/markers/marker_FF0000.png', > > new google.maps.Size(15,20), // original size > > new google.maps.Point(0,0), // origin > > new google.maps.Point(8,20), // anchor > > new google.maps.Size(15,20) // scaled size > > ) > > instead if you pass > > icon: ' > http://viewranger.com/buddybeacon/v2/images/markers/marker_FF0000.png' > > you'll get the faster Canvas markers. > > > > - Ben > > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Kristóf Kótai <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > I know this issue has been posted probably a couple of times, and the > > > answer was always that we should use the clustering lib to avoid > putting too > > > many MarkerImages on the map. > > > > > But my question is something else: If I put 400 Markers (using the > default, > > > Google's marker image as an icon) then why is the map really fast? And > if I > > > use a custom icon, no matter how detailed, if it's transparent or not, > it > > > will be a 100 times slower. > > > > >http://www.viewranger.com/kristof/p1.html(Google's icon) > > >http://www.viewranger.com/kristof/p2.html(My icon) > > > > > I tried to optimise the custom icon as best as I could, but when I > found > > > out that even using a 5x5 pixel big icon (non-transparent, only #ffffff > > > colored pixels) and the map is still unbelievably slow, I started > windering > > > what kind of magic icon does google use? Why can't I create such a > good, > > > optimised icon? > > > > > Is it even possible to create an optimised icon? Or is Google cheating > in > > > someway? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/9fmhHrHRU5UJ. > > > 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
