Comments on: A Virtual Earth to Google Maps Transition: From Idea to Deployment In a Few Weeks

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By: Robbie

Robbie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:32:47 +0000

FYI – The current VE release has custom layer support: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/04/09/virtual-earth-api-release-information-april-2009.aspx

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:59:03 +0000

y is google maps & earth so out of date

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Rwanda « Honeysun — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:39:44 +0000

[...] before starting this trip, released a new version of the website. One interesting change is that Redfin switched from using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth maps to Google Maps. The motivation for the change was performance: Redfin found a way to draw all those home-for-sale [...]

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By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:02:41 +0000

This is a really great post! I stumbled on it trying to solve the problem of a low-cost DESKTOP api for mobile computer systems (in-vehicle).

What I find interesting are the parcel polygons from ParcelStream. Although the overlay intermittently fails to completely draw on zoom, a quick refresh does the trick, and the data is very attractive!

I did a POC converting shapefiles in ArcGIS to kml to show existing GIS data can be displayed on a Google map. It worked, but I was really dissatisfied with the graphic quality, especially when zooming in; the lines dissolved into gigantic pixel blobs. Coarse and choppy would be an understatement.

I am curious; What is the source of the city boundaries? TIA!

By: Angus Davis

Angus Davis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:00:42 +0000

I read this post with interest a few weeks ago. Then today, I stumbled across this blog post:
http://viswaug.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/creating-a-lean-and-fast-custom-marker-overlay-for-google-maps/

… in which a guy named Vish discusses a method he learned about to solve this problem from Pamela Fox. I wonder if Redfin used this approach, or something different?

Vish says: “The sample below illustrates how to create a light weight custom marker GOverlay for Google maps that is REALLY FAST. And it allows for a multitude of customizations as you see fit. … The demo below also allows you to check out the performance of the custom overlay with large number of markers loaded.”

Anyway, since several folks in these comments complained about not hearing how redfin solved the problem, I thought it would at least be worth pointing to this other fellow. I have never built anything in Google Maps so I don’t know much, but I do know that no company has a monopoly on smart people. Maybe this Vish guy is onto something.