Suddenly I have some strange horizontal lines in Google Maps. Please see: http://hippo.ornl.gov/10secdownload/. It was working fine and appeared about a couple of weeks ago. I drew those layers using kml files and I checked them in Google Earth and Google My Maps where they work fine. I can provide kml files if needed.
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How can I get a map that simply shows how to get from A to B with a car on my WordPress page?
I used to do this in Google maps directly, I made a map showing the road from A to B and embed it on the page. It used to be so easy. And under the map I had a link to the same map in Google Maps where you also could get written directions. But like a month ago, Google changed their maps and all my maps got messed up. The links as well. Now I am trying to fix this and make new maps.
I have tried in Google maps directly like i used to do, and this is the closest I get to what I am looking for: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/start. But I find that very hard to customize, because there are very few options. I have also tried a lot of different plugins, but so far no luck.
Is there a better way to do this?
If you want to customize the map, I can only strongly recommend you the Google Maps API. Here is a good example of how to integrate the directions service into a map and display it on your web page.
I'm importing a .kmz file into google maps, however google maps only displays a 2D projection of the path and seems incapable of displaying variation in altitude. Is that simply a limitation of the program, or is there a way to retrieve and present the height (typically displayed as a transparent vertical green rectangle with vertical yellow bars running through it in google earth)?
Thanks
KML has some limitations in Google Maps.
In particular, extrude element is not supported in Google Maps.
Reference: KML Elements Supported in Google Maps
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlelementsinmaps
You could instead use the Google Earth API to embed Google Earth in a web page if that is what you want to do and maintain the 3-D look and feel.
I working on a website that utilizes a Google Map (V3). What I'm looking to do is apply KML layers, provided by the National Weather Service (NWS) at http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php. I am able to get "single images," or still KML files to work, but I want to have the radar animating over time. The NWS provides KMZ loop files, and I've tried just simply adding those, but that doesn't show any KML Layers at all. Thanks in advance for any help
I have made a map with a series of overlays of old maps that I created using MapTiler and the coordinates were definitely correct when I plotted them in Google Earth, but when I load the KML files in Google Maps they are roughly in the correct area but are far from accurate.
As the same error is replicated in all the layers can someone suggest what it is that I am doing wrong?
http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/cordialemapping/kmzdata/withtiledoverlays/19x/doc.kml
http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/cordialemapping/kmzdata/withtiledoverlays/20x/doc.kml
The other KML files can be found by changing the URL to 21x, 22, 23x, 25x, 26x, 27x (I am unable to post more than two links).
I'm converting recorded GPS tracks to KML/KMZ files and they show up correctly in Google Earth. However, opening the same KML file in the Google Maps website I get weird straight lines that are a few thousand km long.
KML download:
http://www.indunet.it/stackexchange/test.kml
Direct link to Google Maps website:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwww.indunet.it%2Fstackexchange%2Ftest.kml&hl=de&sll=37.230328,-95.712891&sspn=52.421131,114.169922&t=h&z=4
This is what the KML file looks like on my computer:
I get identical results with FF, Chrome and IE, so I guess it's somethign related to the generated KML file, but I have no clue what's wrong..
Oddly, zooming in to the correct area (upper-left end of the line, i.e. northern Italy) shows some outline that's similar to the original track:
Correct display in Google Earth (same KML file):
Any ideas?
PS: I get similar results with all tracks I export. However, markers always show up correctly.
Your kml has the coordinates specified:
11.30968602,46.35330003,
If I add a third coordinate it works:
11.30968602,46.35330003,0 [on google maps]
or if I remove the comma at the end it works:
11.30968602,46.35330003 [on google maps]