Thanks Nick!

It's kinda a very late reply but nevertheless!
Your suggestion helped a lot, I used encoded polygons :)

This site provides an encoding utility, as well as a number of java
(among other languages) classes.

Alex.

On Jan 18, 7:05 pm, NickCarpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm no expert, but looking at just one of your KML files I think that
> you're right. The problem is the complexity of all of your polygons on
> the map at the same time.
>
> Have you looked at changing from KML files to using encoded polygons /
> polylines? These have the advantage that they 'auto-simplify'
> themselves depending on the zoom level. Have a look here:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html#Encoded_...
>
> Nick
>
> On Jan 18, 2:02 pm, ahoge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello members of Google Maps API group :)
>
> > I have a very simple page, with a map and about 50 GGeoXml 
> > overlays:http://sametinget.dev.imcode.com/jsp/maps_test.jsp.
>
> > The problem is that only 3 are shown. I checked, downloaded all of
> > the .kml files and opened them in Google Earth, all seem to work and
> > are shown there.
>
> > If I reduce thenumberof overlays to 25, they are shown just fine. I
> > read the google maps' limitation and all files I use seem to be
> > significantly smaller than described there.
>
> > My first thought was that overlays are described using too many
> > points. Sometimes when the page is being loaded, the overlays are
> > added and then most of them disappear, sometimes just a part of an
> > overlay flickers a bit and disappears.
> > Could I be right and should check the complexity of the shapes in the
> > overlays? If so, are there any tools available for analyzing .kml
> > files?
>
> > I'm using the latest Google Chrome Beta on OS X Snow Leopard. Both are
> > up-to-date.
>
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance :)

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