Hi Lance, mucho thanks for the reply...but sigh, I'm still in a bit of denial...and a bit confused...I was hoping to keep my web page abstracted from the whole chore of displaying the icon label name...as in Google Earth that label display was already accomplished within the KML itself.
Sooo...some dumb question: A.) I briefly looked through the Elabels js and also the GeoXML js documentation before I posted this question (as other folks seemed to have a similar challenge with the Gmap kml icon display). But these js libraries seemed to only pertain to the JavaScript on the web page itself? ...and as far as I know, there's no way to embed JavaScript within a KML itself, only HTML (plz correct me if I'm wrong on this). B.) Sooo next dumb question(s): B.1) How does Elables or EgeoXml or GeoXml help with the KML file (assuming can't embedded JavaScript in KML itself)? B.2) Using the Elabels and/or EgeoXml and/or GeoXml js, do I then need to 'open' the KML/KMZ file itself? B.3) Then after opening the KML/KMZ parse it out to the points and placemarks-names inorder to generate regular gmap gmarkers? ...as this seems to be a whole-buncha-work...but if that's what I gotta do, well then, I guess I'll get on it... B.4) and can a KMZ even be opened EgeoXml or GeoXml? Note: What I'm trying to do is to automatically produce KML/KMZ from an large SAP system...then display spatially on a web site...and I must have the labels on the icons when displayed on the map...which again, works fine for Google Earth, but not on Gmaps :-( thanks again, in advance 4est On Feb 8, 12:25 pm, Lance Dyas <[email protected]> wrote: > The tools for labelling placemarks are third party tools > 1) Elabels and > 2) either EgeoXml or my GeoXml (if you have more elaborate kml) > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Woody <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've seen a couple of other posts similar to this, but they don't seem > > to answer the question, nor offer a clear solution. > > > I can get a KML files <Placemark> <name> to show in Google Earth, but > > alas, displaying the same KML file to a Google Map does not show the > > place mark name. > > > Note that I'm just attempting to leverage the Google Maps Code Demo > > at: > > >http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ggeoxml/ggeoxml_loader2... > > > The above Gmap demo shows blue icons for the "Japan Pics"...but no > > labels on the placemark icons (which is bad thing, as I would like to > > display the placemark name). > > > - If view the source of the above GMap demo, you can fish around and > > find the URL for the "Japan Pics" KML file: > > http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/my-vacation-photos.kml > > > - And if then view the above KML file in Google Earth, the placemark > > names are displayed...which is good/what I would like. > > > Soooo, the question, how do you make the KML files placemark names > > show up when displaying the KML to a Gmap page? > > > thanks much in advance > > 4est > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Maps API" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-maps-api%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
