Monday, December 01, 2008

Clustering Solution for Google Maps

Mapeed

Mapeed is a new clustering plug-in solution that has just been launched for Google Maps. Based on a new generation of algorithms Mapeed can compute and display 50,000 markers on a map in a very short time.

Mapeed have a couple of Google Maps demonstrating the use of the clustering plugin:
  • CrunchVision Map - the CrunchBase Map shows the location of 6091 companies registered on CrunchBase.
  • Olympic Medallists Map - this map shows where in the world all the Olympic medallists from the Beijing 2008 Olympics hail from. Compare the performance of this map using the Mapeed plug-in with the Supernifty Google Maps of the medallists which uses no clustering solution.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i wish google would just release cluster feature of their own

Keir Clarke said...

Check out the marker manager

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html#Marker_Manager