Hi Pmeems,
I’m using the activex control mapwingis, I’m finding that tile loading does seem really slow, although there does seem to be some buffering/caching somewhere along the line. As it can be quicker to load previous loaded parts, even on a new instances.
I’ve been playing with projections, which it seem can cause some problems with tile loading.
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