Preloading tile images into cache?

[Ned Baldessin]

Hello,

I'm implementing a sort of "world tour" presentation: for a given set of locations (maybe a dozen), I want to flyTo() the location, display a few markers for a few seconds, and then flyTo() the next location, etc.

To make the flyTo() animation more fluid, I would like to preload the tiles of the next location, so the browser has them in cache, and can display them quickly.

Any idea where to hook up this preloading functionality?

Thanks.

— n.