Batch geocoding your points should speed up the load time all by itself. The layers that article talks about are not available through the Visualization API's Map visualization; you would need to use the Google Maps API to have access to the layers.
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:26:15 PM UTC-4, Sofiya Niaz wrote: > > Hi Andrew and Carlos, > > Thanks for your input. Is it possible that the map load time could be > reduced to a minute or so by using geocoding service and have the server > load it by using Fusion tables as specified here > <https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/toomanymarkers>. This is > considering that there are more than 400 markers that we want to load. > Please let me know if in your experience this has been a possibility. > > Thanks ! > > On Thursday, August 7, 2014 6:38:44 AM UTC-5, Carlos Moreira wrote: >> >> Hi! >> Like Andrew already said, it's better to geocode the addresses first. >> If you use coordinates instead of text strings as the location data, the >> markers will load much faster. >> >> Like they in the documentation: >> >> The fastest modes are dataMode='regions' with locations specified as ISO >> codes, and dataMode='markers' with lat/long enties. The slowest mode is >> dataMode='markers' with a string address. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 6:52:28 PM UTC+1, Sofiya Niaz wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently was trying out the Maps feature that is available on Goolge >>> Charts API. I understand that it has 400 points as the maximum that it can >>> display. However it takes really long for the map to load. More than 15 >>> minutes. I send in street addresses to plot the markers. Is there a way to >>> speed up the load time? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
