Travel Mapping

Web Design Discussion => General Web Design Discussion => Topic started by: Ib3kii on December 17, 2016, 06:08:50 pm

Title: Satellite Imagery Randomly Shuts Off On Occasion
Post by: Ib3kii on December 17, 2016, 06:08:50 pm

Once every week or so, the satellite imagery will randomly shut itself off. I am posting that here because it only seems to happen on this website. Here is an example, the first one was taken just now on normal Google Maps with satellite on:

Title: Re: Satellite Imagery Randomly Shuts Off On Occasion
Post by: Ib3kii on December 17, 2016, 06:10:01 pm

And this one was taken just now on the Travel Mapping site with the satellite on:

Title: Re: Satellite Imagery Randomly Shuts Off On Occasion
Post by: Jim on December 17, 2016, 07:23:57 pm

Just a guess, but maybe the number of overlays we have on the map (all of the highway segments and in some cases also the waypoints) might tax the Google Maps API and/or your browser a lot more than the standard Google Maps views.