Bratliff, I can't remember if I've asked you this before or not...but have you messed much with the Flash API? Do you think it would deal with the scaling issue more appropriately?
To anyone that might be able to help, In this work-up, does anyone know why nothing loads if I use the links above the map, to switch to a radar product-type I've already viewed? For example, click on "Composite Reflectivity", click on another one, and then back to "Composite Reflectivity". If I take out the addition of the legend layer from the code - all works fine. ...but I can't figure out why. Thank you all very much! Really. I can't say how much I'm enjoying this board, and the help that you all have been so gracious to offer up. Have a great one! On Sep 3, 2:55 pm, bratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 3, 5:11 pm, Geostrophic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I see what you mean, regarding the efficiency. Not seeing an immediate > > way around the IE efficiency problem, I'm looking into building a > > "Smarter" application - that would display the radar in a different > > way when viewed in IE. > > > To that end, since IE acts a lot better when the radar is opaque, I > > was looking at the potion of keeping the radar images opaque in IE, > > and somehow overlaying just the roads from the G_NORMAL_MAP on top of > > the radar image. I've seen it done, here: > > http://tropics.myfoxtampabay.com/index.php?siteID=1018&load=rdr > > Unfortunately, it uses Flash which to some may be a deal breaker. It > also appears to be using its own custom tile set rather than your GIF > files. > > Correct scaling can really improve animation speed. I could easily > send you width & height parameters if you could adjust the GIF file to > fit. Otherwise, the browser must do it for every frame of every > cycle. > > The natural dimensions of the GIF files are 600 x 550 pixels. The > browser does a pretty lousy job of stretching or squeezing it to fit. > Pixel interpolation at the server will really improve the appearance. > IE7 can do it reasonable well but it adds overhead. IE6 has a less > capable "Blur" filter which also adds overhead. Firefox has nothing > except simulated dithering with multiple partially opaque copies of > the same file at slight offsets. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
