Rossko, thank you very much for the answer.
I knew what was in my KML since I have programmed the tool which produced it :-). So it was clear that "My Maps" itself was adding the unwanted information. Nevertheless, I suspected the KML to be responsible the other way around: Let's assume that there exists some KML tag which normally contains the "unwanted information", but that I didn't use that tag in my KML file (due to my restricted knowledge of KML). Thus, "My Maps" would put some "default information" into the info window because I did not define this information explicitely. Well, there could even have been a KML tag which says "don't display default information in the info window of that placemark". Some months ago, I had a deep look into the KML specification (in fact, I have read most part of the schema), but did not see any tags which could be used for this purpose. But you never can be sure if you didn't miss something, so I just wanted to confirm. The image content of the description tag was a dummy for internal testing. I needed the KML only to set the placemarks to the correct places; I used to add the description in the info windows manually (HTML code including the images which are sourced from some web space). The link you have give is very valuable. Obviously, when loading the KML into a map by JavaScript, no additional, unwanted information is added to the placemarks' info windows, as opposed to loading the KML into the map via "My Places". So I will try to load the maps and the KML into my website directly by JavaScript instead of pre-generating it in "My Places" and then link to it. That forces me to add all the HTML for the info window into the description fields of all placemarks in the KML file before uploading it, but that will probably lead to a better quality of the info windows content, so I can live with it :-) The disadvantage is that typos in the info window can't be corrected quickly: I would have to correct the KML and to re-upload it. @Google (if somebody reads this): It would be nice to have some options in the "My Places" GUI to set properties of the info window. Much has been achieved already (it's astonishing how easy the symbol for the placemark can be changed and so on), but there should be at least an option for the info windows to suppress unwanted information and links. These are eating much of precious space, and it's an privacy issue, too. Thanks for helping! Binarus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/skz_q4N19wsJ. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
