I have an application which is using RadMap to display Bing data which works very nice. The application also uses a map tool created by ThinkGeo to load and display shape files distributed by them called the World Map Kit. The ThinkGeo tool is fine, however the Telerik one is much better and nicer to work with. As such I attempted to load the shape files into the RadMap tool and was unable to because of the extreme slowdown of the application.
One shape file which appears to outline all land features took about a minute to load and then an additional minute or so after the ReadCompleted event to finally let the layer display. Another shape file is taking several minutes to load with no signs of stopping. Panning or zooming is also painfully slow.
ThinkGeo is able to load and display their map with about 30 or so seconds of total loading.
One key difference I can see is the largest shape file in the RadMap example is world_continents with a size of 185K. The largest ThinkGeo shape file is 384 MB with a DBF size of 285 MB. Can RadMap work with very large shape files?
Update: I went to check the version I was using which was 2010.3.1314.40. I upgraded to 2011.1.411.40 and now it fails loading any shape file with the error "Width and Height must be non-negative" and attempts to find the source for InformationLayer.ArrangeOverride line 695. In the 2010 version these shape files loaded, but were quite slow.
One shape file which appears to outline all land features took about a minute to load and then an additional minute or so after the ReadCompleted event to finally let the layer display. Another shape file is taking several minutes to load with no signs of stopping. Panning or zooming is also painfully slow.
ThinkGeo is able to load and display their map with about 30 or so seconds of total loading.
One key difference I can see is the largest shape file in the RadMap example is world_continents with a size of 185K. The largest ThinkGeo shape file is 384 MB with a DBF size of 285 MB. Can RadMap work with very large shape files?
Update: I went to check the version I was using which was 2010.3.1314.40. I upgraded to 2011.1.411.40 and now it fails loading any shape file with the error "Width and Height must be non-negative" and attempts to find the source for InformationLayer.ArrangeOverride line 695. In the 2010 version these shape files loaded, but were quite slow.