I agree. I tend to use the full MarkerImage constructor and have been specifying a scaled size equal to the original icon size. This means i've unknowingingly been disabling any canvas optimisations for my maps!
Defintely worth a mention in the documentation i say. Can Ben confirm that passing null as the scaled size property won't cause un-optimalised markers? I have a marker manager script that needs to get each icon's size and anchor point so my code needs to icon size and anchor in the MarkerImage constructor. Passing null as scaled size but passing icon size and icon anchor point will give me canvas optimised markers will it? Thanks a lot. Martin. On Oct 14, 8:56 am, Kristóf Kótai <[email protected]> wrote: > This is unbelievable... > I removed the scaling (which doesn't even happen because the original > size is the same as the new size): > > http://www.viewranger.com/kristof/p3.html > > And it is really fast... > This should definitely be mentioned in the documentation! This would > help many people a lot! > > Thanks, Kristof > > 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'sicon) > > >http://www.viewranger.com/kristof/p2.html(Myicon) > > > > 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.
