I heard the origins of the swastika are related to the origins of the cross and symbolise four rivers flowing from the garden of eden...
Anyway back on topic. Have you thought about creating your own custom map tiles? Not a simple task but far from impossible. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/maptypes.html#CustomMapTypes Performance depends on your server to a point. A static dataset can be rendered on demand and cached to the server file system when rendered. So even a slow server will start to serve tiles faster as time goes by and more tiles are served from the cache rather than being rendered. Your dataset looks to be more dynamic though so flushing the cached tiles once a day(?) would mean your server has more work to do to serve requested tiles. Take a look here to see what PHP, GD Library and MySQL can do with 8000 or more placemarks: http://shipfinder.co/?bounds=49.525208,-5.668945,55.385352,15.424805&mask=8191 That's a dynamic dataset with the map updating every 30 seconds, a Fusion table would be no use here. Also a Fusion table has no mouseover and mouseout events to listen for - something that was required on Ship Finder. Martin. On Dec 8, 8:49 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting, there's a swastika icon on the left of that page, and its > > called "temple_jp"? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#East_Asia > "Japanese maps continue to use the swastika symbol to denote a > Buddhist temple." -- 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.
