It's a probably a WMS based solution.... -- George
Quoting Peesjee <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > Let me explain my situation. I recently created an website showing current > positions of ships with googlemaps. For a couple of reasons, we want to > migrate to another solution. One of the reasons is performance. With > googlemaps, i parse an xml (given by a webservice) and add/update markers > for every ship to show. This slows down with the number of ships to show > (example, sometimes we show more than 500 ships). To be honest, i'm not sure > this is a good way to work... > > We are in contact with a company that offers a solution for us. They use > Openlayers. We have seen a demo and its very fast. I dont think they add > "markers" for every ship. Cause, when i zoom, the object also zooms, and > then refresh to the correct size it was before. How do they do that? Its > extremely fast, less than a second to show a 1000 of objects on a map. > > i'm given the task to investigate the possibilities of Openlayers, and > decide whether we can implement everything ourselfs (with openlayers), or > just buy the solution of that company. i'm afraid that, with my "solution", > adding so many markers, the website would'nt be that fast. > > What is the best way to put 500 - 1000 "markers" on a map? (and refresh, > when refreshing in googlemaps, i had to update the marker-objects to prevent > flickering) Sometimes a have to draw lines between them (tracking). (i know > of the image caching problem in IE) > > I see i can add Markers, GML, geoRSS. So, which one do i use? i could create > a webservice that gives me a GML, so i only have to load it, but is this > fast? or do i use my googlemaps way, adding markers and updating those > markers (slow)? > > Greetz > Peesjee > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Move-to-Openlayers-tp2121890p2121890.html > Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
