Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-28 Thread Srinivasan Ramani
Best thing to do is to open the shape files in QGIs.. Simplify geometries a bit and then convert to kml. The datameet version is very good and therefore very bulky and doesn't translate too well for web purposes. On 28 Apr 2014 11:16, Ravi Bajpai bajpair...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, so I converted

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-28 Thread Thejesh GN
Ravi, It generates a KML of 35MB which is huge for the web apps. Google maps/API has limitation wrt to the size of KML https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/mapsSupport -- But it works on leaftlet using

Re: [datameet] Re: Looking for KML file of India's parliamentary constituencies, need it urgently!

2014-04-28 Thread Raphael Susewind
Ravi, alternatively you might want to try mapbox.com tilemill / tilestream to render the files once, and then serve tiles only... Best, Raphael On 28.04.2014 10:48, Thejesh GN wrote: Ravi, It generates a KML of 35MB which is huge for the web apps. Google maps/API has limitation wrt to the