I have found the DIY Map.. an excellent map tool if you are ever looking for one. Aside from how fantastic it is… the associated XML file can get fairly large (it contains map setting, country names etc). I was wondering if it were possible to compress it and have javascript uncompress it on the users side….
There is a lot of repetition in there a lot of tags that I was thinking could be swapped with place holders and then replaced by the javascript…
or should I just rely on gzip to do that for me?
JS is very slow. GZIP is definitely the way to go.