Scrolling is slow because of the number of DOM elements. With a KML layer, it would be a HUGE speed improvement.
This also looks to be a prime candidate for marker clustering. Chad Killingsworth On Jun 30, 4:43 pm, Raphael Krut-Landau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a map set up at <http://openhatch.org/people/>. It has a couple > thousand markers. When you scroll, the map shudders and hangs a bit. > How can I make it faster? What do you do to keep a map displaying this > much information scrolling smoothly? Are there "best practices" within > Google Maps v3, or add-ons I should use? > > Note that the scrolling of this map is pretty fluid when there are > fewer markers, e.g., <http://openhatch.org/people/?q=project > %3ATwisted>. > > Best, > > Raphael > > p.s. Something we've thought about: We're generating the markers in > JS. We could use KML, but we don't think that would make it go faster, > because it's the scrolling that's slow, not the marker-making. -- 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.
