Adding many circles to a google map

Question

I\'m attempting to draw many circles (around 1000) on a google map, at various locations and sizes, and then binding a click event to them. But this many calls of new goog

Answer 1

With the help of others via the Google Maps API v3 Group, I was able to implement a map overlay that handles 10,000 points suprisingly well. The trick is to use a canvas tile overlay, which minimizes the number of DOM elements in exchange for much simpler/lighter-weight POJsOs (plain old JavaScript objects).

Demo page w/mouse click events (API v2 only): http://notebook.kulchenko.com/maps/datamark
Demo page w/cursor swapping (API v2 and v3): http://notebook.kulchenko.com/maps/gridmark