WISH LIST FOR THE NEXT RELEASE

WISH LIST FOR THE NEXT RELEASE

• ronnie2002c2c

  You should change the thread title to:

  "Jeff's All I want for Christmas List"

  But are the elves listening.....

  John.

  
  
  

• DOSrelic

  • VEMap.GetMapView replaced in 3D mode so it returns a polygon representing what is currently visible
  • Multiple Routes on the same map or Routing with waypoints

  
  
  

• Dhaval-Patel

  I have some good ideas for the clustering and speeding up the Pins Jeff. We got 100,000 points rendering on the map in under 2 sec, well less then 2 sec of unresponding, rendering is actually continueous. It is mainly server side but i hope to do a simply client version in javascript soon. The basic idea is you create your pins as normal but by calling my new addpushpin() function. It does some funky stuff:

  1) stores the details in an array and returns responsiveness back to the user immediatly.

  2) Based on what is currently visible only renders those on the map (with a little overlap for useability)

  3) Clusters points that are on top of each other

  4) as you pan around points are added as they come into view. (points may be removed also - check performance)

  5) as you zoom points are re-clustered based on overlaps

  6) Rollover on a clustered point gives you access to the full set of clustered pin's details

  7) Support for polygons and polylines

  The trick with keeping it responsive is rendering the pins/lines in batches, render 20-50 then call a timeout for few milliseconds, that way the user can pan/zoom or whatever and the pins just keep on appearing. It takes longer overall but the user perception is it was almost instant.

  The server side version has the advantage that it only needs to send very small amounts of data. Using the compression algorithm for lat/lon values and dropping unessesary stuff I got 350K down to 14K.

  John.

  
  
  

• RWF

  I want some map Properties to specify the Boundaries of the area where you can scroll to.

  so a map that shall only show new york cant pan outside this area.

  
  
  

• barkingdog

  Well,

  1.id like more performant map-servers. The google-maps map-servers seem to deliver the map-tiles much faster than the VE-map-servers.

  2.id like to have the option to choose between 2 ways of zooming:

  the default behaviour where the an empty tile is displayed until the map-tile of the new zoomfactor is loaded
  and the google maps style behaviour where the old map tile is scaled up/down until the new tile is loaded, so there are no empty tile-blocks while loading the new graphics.

  
  
  

• aditi shah

  • The ability to filter Road Types or assign preferences that was made available in the latest Mappoint Web Service release .
    

  
  

• RobertFogt

  More control on a specific Pushpin.

  like a Property to change the pushpin-css-class on the fly, instead of using DOM-trix for doing it.

  hmm, cluster-logic would be an awesome feature too. But cant tell if thats such an easy thing it can be quickly integrated.

  And maybe its possible to speed up the pushpin creation, i always display 300+ pushpins, after loading the data from my server, it the IE keeps unresponsible for 4-5 seconds or longer during that create-loop , depending on the amount of pins i add to the map.

  And a real cool thing would be if there was a cssclass assigned to the tile <img> elements, so i could use the dx filters on them to create cool visuals. woah, my brain is about to burst on that specific feature.

  
  
  

• yanyee

  An Api to put my own 3D objects on the map.

  
  
  

• pjtaylor

  - ability to set the altitude of a pushpin
  

• NeroToxic

  I would like to see increased map/ sat image coverage - the crucial element of a map aplication. There are still so many countries with no or very poor map coverage - south america for example - so that there is plenty to improve still.

  
  

• Dylan Smith

  Yep, we're listening. I've been quiet lately on the forums (sorry!), but I'm here...

  Keep going! What else do y'all want

  
  
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