[EHPweb] Google Capabilities

[Eric M Martinez]

- All -
We have previously tried plotting our recent earthquake system in  
Google maps but ran into problems with having so many quakes on the  
maps at one time.  I'm not sure which commodity hardware/software this  
was tested on, but it seems to be less of an issue now.  My recent  
tests have concluded that modern machines (nothing fancy) running  
Internet Explorer (the slowest, yet most popular browser) have little  
problems handling upwards of 1000 plotted locations at once.  For  
additional testing I'm asking you all take a quick look at the "Google  
Stress" page I mocked up.  It plots a variable number of random points  
on the map.  You can manually vary the number of plotted points by  
using the input field above the map.  Play with this page and see at  
what point you feel the page becomes too unresponsive.  Please let me  
know your results so we have sample data from various machines.

	http://eqint.cr.usgs.gov/gstress/

Thanks,
	~Eric.