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.
First time asking a question so sorry if it's not well worded. I'm trying to display a placemark over every country with a custom icon for each (their flag), using a KML file. If i look at the file using google earth everything works fine but when its loaded on google map it only displays a small number of them (around 20). Does anyone know if there is a limit for custom icons on placemark? https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/mapsSupport according to this i don't think so but im kinda lost.
All the links to the png imgs works.
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 am working on loading KML files into a map using Google Maps API v3. The KML loads fine and the markers are seen. But the marker info (pop-up when the marker is clicked) never shows up in a consistent manner. A few work some times, some others don't. This is really peculiar. To see the page, check-
http://www.sobitabraham.com/teawap/NEW_kml.html
The KML file is here-
https://sites.google.com/site/teawapdata/home/kml-files/TEAWAP.kml
The KML file is 990 KB in size, so it is not some file size ceiling problem. It could have something to with the caching of KML, I am not sure. The KML file was exported from Google Earth.
The frustrating thing is that this marker behavior is erratic, the error is not consistent. This problem is seen even when I paste the URL of the KML file into maps.google.com. Any help in sorting this out will be appreciated.
Thanks.
How i can get kml file from Google Maps that contains route thru several points. Now i use this link http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=51.591016,-0.107382&daddr=51.359619,-0.147695&ie=UTF8&0&om=0&output=kml It work, but only for two points.
First, you should know that Google Maps and Google earth have different capabilities for displaying kml files. Google Earth has almost no limitations, you can author full mxd's to google earth with legends and everything, google maps, however, does not have nearly the same capability.
In google maps you are restricted to displaying 200 kml points on one page, this is because this application is server based and created using javascript, for performance purposes, you are limited to only 200 kml points per page. You might notice that the rest of your points are on different pages, unfortunatly you cannot view them all at the same time. One thing that you can do, Is serve up a url to your kml file (you can do this easily if you have an ftp account or with google my pages), then just enter the url into the search box, presto! all of your points will show up, only, you will not be able to route directions or edit any attributes, you can merely save to my maps and share the display of the points (again people will not be able to get directions from the points)
Serving up your kml to a url address is good practise, it will save you time, also you can use your own symbology, if you enter the url address in the upload area (as opposed to the search box) you will be able to keep your symbology, edit the attributes and get directions and all of that other fun stuff. You will however have the limitation of only being able to display 200 points per page.
Thus if you need to be able to have the user search for directions from your points, you can only have 200 points at a time :(
enter the url in the search box and all of your points will appear......but no directions..
Hope this helps.
For Reference:
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/kml.htm
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlelementsinmaps.html