Yea, definitely look into clustering. I found this script for V3 very straightforward:
http://blog.fusonic.net/archives/195 Just add the each marker to the "fluster" and it will take care of the rest. You can also customize the threshold for each icon color (don't know if you can add more than three?) as well as the grid size. On Jun 30, 2:43 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.
