The waypoint My WayPoint DB have now colored icons instead of the default. It 'been a struggle even though almost all of the code was ready for some time.
In fact I had already implemented the icons from the very first version, but there was a problem when there were too many placeholders all became very slow. It was not a problem with the icons, but the fact that the map Always shows all waypoints, even appiccicatissimi (at low zoom levels) or off (more zoom levels).
ovviai Then using (and creating) an external source XML to the Waypoint. But gave a problem with custom icons that have never been able to resolve (the anchor point of the icon was not the right one, so the icons pointing a pretty fancy place, zooming in and moved up to go very close to correct). So, no icons.
There were two other problems with the XML: the first was that the detail page (accessed from the cartoon) is always opened in another window, the second was that if the XML loaded, the map was left completely blank (something incomprehensible to the user, who did not receive any error, but did not see even the waypoint).
Now I finally implemented the "waypoint manager of Google Maps. No more external XML, perhaps a tad bit slower (because the data is all within the page), but everything is much simpler and more direct (and there are the icons!).
