Asynchronous loading of google maps?

[MarieHaynes]

I'm working on a page that ranks the 10 best neighborhoods in our city.  With each of the top 10 I have a 300x200 google map of the area.  These maps are taking some time to load and slowing down the speed of the page.  Is there a way to load these asynchronously?  Or any other way to speed up the page?

[GeorgeDavis]

10 maps is a lot of data going on... have you considered just doing static images of each neighborhood and making it link to the Google map?

[MarieHaynes]

Too cool.  Just as I was falling asleep last night I figured out that this was exactly what I was going to do.