[OpenLayers-Users] workaround for kml size limit

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 5/9/2012 11:14 AM, michelle lee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am developing a map to display flood disaster on map, I need paint
> counties with different colors based on the flood severity values and
> popup a window to display some detail info when user click the map. I
> use OL with KML format and it is fine for my test when the disaster
> affects a small amount of counties, but got problem for cases when the
> flood affects multiple provinces since the polygon files are pretty big
> for counties. I googled online and found that the kml has a size limit
> for 10mb, any alternative solution for this problem?

If you do not need all the detail of the polygon outline, then look into 
simplifying it, like st_simplify() in postgis.

-Steve W