Boosting Performance

The Centigon Solutions team is constantly improving GMaps Plugin performance so data rendering, pan, zoom, and refresh all occur seamlessly with large volumes of data. The following tips will ensure you get the best performance with thousands of locations in your map.

Address Data v.s. Latitude/Longitude
When plotting data points in a map you have the option to use comma separated Latitude/Longitude or address data. While address data (full address, zip, state name, country, etc) provides you with lots of flexibility to display data, it does provide a performance lag that you will experience as the volume of data points increase. While the full version of GMaps Plugin will convert these data points 150% faster than the trial, it still presents problems when looking at hundreds of data points.

The best performance is achieved when using geocoded data (data that is converted to latitude,longitude). If you need assistance to geocode your data or need more information about services to accomplish this within your BI infrastructure, please contact support@centigonsolutions.com

Disabling Glow
By default, when you have glow enabled, a blue (or whatever the glow color may be) shadow/glow effect happens whenever you select a given marker, to visually indicate that it has been selected. It's strictly a visual cue and has no impact on other map behaviors other than speeding up the time it takes to render the icons. You can think of the glow effect as an additional weight that each icon has to carry around when glow is enabled. You won't notice a huge performance gain with a few markers but when you're looking at thousands, disabling glow can really speed things up. So the impact should be that after disabling glow, the map will experience a noticeable panning/zooming/rendering performance gain

• Centigon Solutions includes multiple marker types.
• Stylized Icons- Standard icons included with GMaps Plugin
• High Performance Icons- Designed for larger data sets for dashboards greater than 3,000 "Basic Circle" and "Basic Star" are designed to maximize performance of the map.
• Heatmaps- Heatmaps inherit the same performance as stylized icons

Upgrading to version 3.0.1 and greater
GMaps Plugin 3.0 and greater includes significant performance improvements from 2.1 and prior versions. It is highly recommended that if you are rendering more than 500 data points at one time to upgrade to 3.0. Please contact sales@centigonsolutions.com if you require information about upgrading.

For more information about the upgrade process, please visit our migration learning page.