On Nov 18, 9:44 pm, daza <[email protected]> wrote: > This is for the Google Maps V3 developers.... > > Scenario - Need custom icons on KML point files. > > Using KML as opposed to manually parsing XML or JSON is more attractive > given the better performance of returning tiles rather than adding > heaps of placemarks to the HTML DOM. However with manual parsing I have > more customisation control over icons. > > I realise we can inject unique icon references into our KML data source > but that comes at the expense of file size and means the data source > has to change if we want a icon style change, which does not seem that > smart. > > Is there any future potential to add a KMLLayerOption for an icon, > which would override any icon reference in the KML file. > This would seem a smarter option for applying custom icons to KML point > files, whilst leveraging the performance of KML over manual parsing. > > At the moment it seems you either have to trade off between performance > and customisation, or write some very intricate code like Fastmarker, > which we'd like to avoid. >
The place for enhancement requests is the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list Star the ones you would like to see implemented. -- Larry > Thanks in advance. > > Darren Felsman -- 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.
