I second this idea...low bandwidth != tiles strips of differing opacity rectangular polys... more client side computation little bandwidth.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 15, 6:04 am, Philip <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I want to be able to do is to render a day/night overlay. I can > > do this with tiles but the tiles change every five minutes which means > > that the server uses a lot of bandwidth. My goal is to render the day/ > > night terminator layer entirely on the client side. > > I think I'd just use a GPolygon for that, not tiles, but I haven't > given it too much thought. There may be some issues to handle with > wrapping at low zoom levels. > > -- > Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu > -- > > > > > > > I suspect that > > today's PCs are fast enough to make this not too bad. Of course a good > > Javascript implementation will help! > > > > Anyway, the GGroundOverlay allows you to place an image onto the > > ground. I want to be able to place tiled canvas objects ..... > > > > Philip > > > > On Feb 14, 8:07 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a class just like GTileLayer that allows me to place > > > > arbitrary objects instead of image tiles. > > > > > What doesn't GGroundOverlay do that you need? > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html#Ground_O... > > -- > 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]<google-maps-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. > > -- 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.
