bratliff wrote:
Parsing a KML file served to the browser through a proxy
loading any xml from offi site you are using a proxy / cacheing service
or... have your data
in json, my GeoXml parser can use a trivial proxy or handle json.
Googles GGeoXml
uses a cacheing service and json ... which re
For what it is worth, the ability to LEGALLY use the results of
Google's "gx" service might be a nice enhancement.
www.polyarc.us/gx
The "mapslt" / "mapsdt" service could build the tile layer overlay.
The user could supplement it with "clickable" elements through the
API.
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On Mar 22, 11:23 pm, BuckyE wrote:
> Rather than mucking about with GeoXML, I've decided to just use the
> brute force method of having all markers, polylines and polygons
> created from a standard XML. It works for me. Someone more expert at
> the whole thing needs to work out a routine for hand
Lance Dyas wrote:
Dommer wrote:
By parse here, you mean addoverlay()? When would you enter these
values?
No with my GeoXml class, the method is called parse It was named
before Google made a namespace so they
were always (GGeoXml).. If I had it to do over I would call it
LGeoXml for
Dommer wrote:
By parse here, you mean addoverlay()? When would you enter these
values?
No with my GeoXml class, the method is called parse It was named before
Google made a namespace so they
were always (GGeoXml).. If I had it to do over I would call it
LGeoXml for Lances GeoXml parse
By parse here, you mean addoverlay()? When would you enter these
values?
This is relevant to the discussion we're having over here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/eeea44641b1bb5de#
Thanks!
On Mar 8, 3:45 pm, Lance Dyas wrote:
> There are settings in ther
I second the mention that this is an issue that needs to get tackled,
we're having a similiar discussion about it over here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/eeea44641b1bb5de#
On Mar 22, 4:23 pm, BuckyE wrote:
> Rather than mucking about with GeoXML, I've deci
Rather than mucking about with GeoXML, I've decided to just use the
brute force method of having all markers, polylines and polygons
created from a standard XML. It works for me. Someone more expert at
the whole thing needs to work out a routine for handling Garden Shed
Sized Polygons!
As of 2009
There are settings in there you can tweak
on the encoding used by the GeoXml class
.. the default values used are
geoxml.verySmall = 0.001;
geoxml.ZoomFactor = 2;
geoxml.NumLevels = 18;
set them on your GeoXml object
before calling parse
you could try making very small smaller and NumLevels
You've all been immensely kind and patient about my polygon problem. I
sure hope some others get some use from this thread. I sure don't mind
a little duplication of effort. I feel like I've gotten a whole lot of
presents for my birthday or something!
On Mar 6, 10:26 am, Lance Dyas wrote:
> Lanc
Oh, believe me, I was thrilled at the possibility of making my KML in
Google Earth and having my Google Map just show it. How much more easy
could life get? When I constructed my Rioni map (
http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/rioni/
) I struggled with those damn polygons for days. So the promise of
KML colors are AABBGGRR - alpha (opacity), blue, green, red
On Mar 5, 8:34 pm, BuckyE wrote:
> Here's one little oddity I noticed peering at and poring over these
> d*mnable KML files. They have what seem to me to be bad or odd color
> definitions: , 33ff, ff00, etc. What's with
Lance Dyas wrote:
> Andrew Leach wrote:
>
>> On Mar 6, 10:10 am, Andrew Leach
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The first two characters are transparency.
>>>
>>>
>> Memo to self: don't rely on the web interface to show the whole
>> thread. Sorry. At least my answer matched other people'
Andrew Leach wrote:
> On Mar 6, 10:10 am, Andrew Leach
> wrote:
>
>> The first two characters are transparency.
>>
>
> Memo to self: don't rely on the web interface to show the whole
> thread. Sorry. At least my answer matched other people's :-)
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On Mar 6, 10:10 am, Andrew Leach
wrote:
>
> The first two characters are transparency.
Memo to self: don't rely on the web interface to show the whole
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On Mar 6, 4:34 am, BuckyE wrote:
> Here's one little oddity I noticed peering at and poring over these
> d*mnable KML files. They have what seem to me to be bad or odd color
> definitions: , 33ff, ff00, etc. What's with that?
The first two characters are transparency. KML doesn't
> Here's one little oddity I noticed peering at and poring over these
> d*mnable KML files. They have what seem to me to be bad or odd color
> definitions: , 33ff, ff00, etc. What's with that?
It's colour AND opacity in one. See -
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml
BuckyE wrote:
> Yes, I've been doing that. Satellite goes up to 23 or so before the
> resolution gets too bad to be of further use. Your parser is
> definitely way better than the GGeoXml. But the best so far is not
> "parsing" at all. Just reading as polygons from an XML. And, I think I
> can add
BuckyE wrote:
> Here's one little oddity I noticed peering at and poring over these
> d*mnable KML files. They have what seem to me to be bad or odd color
> definitions: , 33ff, ff00, etc. What's with that?
>
Its how kml defines colors.. in the specifications
http://code.google.
Here's one little oddity I noticed peering at and poring over these
d*mnable KML files. They have what seem to me to be bad or odd color
definitions: , 33ff, ff00, etc. What's with that?
On Mar 5, 5:00 pm, Garthan wrote:
> I assert this file was not made directly by google earth
::laughing:: Well, what I really want is to get into the via Margutta
51 complex and take enough pictures to show its layout, and the movie
locations, in full, once and for all. Maybe I'll get lucky somehow
next time we're in Rome!
On Mar 5, 11:01 pm, Lance Dyas wrote:
> Lance Dyas wrote:
> > If
Yes, I've been doing that. Satellite goes up to 23 or so before the
resolution gets too bad to be of further use. Your parser is
definitely way better than the GGeoXml. But the best so far is not
"parsing" at all. Just reading as polygons from an XML. And, I think I
can add some arrays or an array
Lance Dyas wrote:
> If you switch your map type to Satellite... you will be able to go in an
> additional zoom level on that page and see that
> the shapes are better than they seem ;-)
>
if you build your own custom maptype with an aerial photo or some such..
maybe you could zoom in farther t
Lance Dyas wrote:
> If you switch your map type to Satellite... you will be able to go in an
> additional zoom level on that page and see that
> the shapes are better than they seem ;-)
>
> That page is one usage of the parser source is available
> http://code.google.com/p/geoxml/
Most of the in
If you switch your map type to Satellite... you will be able to go in an
additional zoom level on that page and see that
the shapes are better than they seem ;-)
That page is one usage of the parser source is available
http://code.google.com/p/geoxml/
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Yes! Yes, yes, yes! Well, in the sense that I get the page and your
excellent parser reads the file and displays my polygons. All of them
are trapezoids. None have been collapsed down into lines the way
they've been in the standard maps API pages, or Google Maps itself.
But none of them look **exa
> Any way let me know if it now works for you.
Yessum, that works in IE6.
And the GeoXml parser shows up the iddybiddy polys ok, of course.
I think we can conclude that GGeoXml works with large buildings but
not garden sheds.
cheers, Ross K
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Sorry about the thing not working, fixed it now so those not running
the Mac Safari, I tested with will work ;-)
Any way let me know if it now works for you.
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On Mar 5, 5:31 pm, Rossko wrote:
> It's beginning to feel like GGeoXml 'simplifies' imported KML detail
> by discarding points that are close together, throwing out the key
> vertices of small polygons along the way.
GGeoXml has an undisclosed poly simplification method which is a
little too agr
Well I was able to put the url of your kml in the text field where you
do the search and
it worked then off of my PC ... no clue where the xdomain restriction
comes from yet
On Mar 5, 5:44 pm, Garthan wrote:
> Thats very wierd... the access denied is happening on my pc.. on the
> same network i
Thats very wierd... the access denied is happening on my pc.. on the
same network it works fine on my MAC
arhhh, well that calls for an investigation...
On Mar 5, 5:31 pm, Rossko wrote:
> > I've tried several times to open my KMLs in your parser, by clicking
> > the URL you've so kindly sup
> I've tried several times to open my KMLs in your parser, by clicking
> the URL you've so kindly supplied.
Don't feel tpicked on, it doesn't work for me either - "Permission
denied".
Cross-domain restrictions?
It's beginning to feel like GGeoXml 'simplifies' imported KML detail
by discarding po
Thanks for looking at this! It would be great if you've found a
solution. All the KML documents I've made (including one more just now
made from scratch) have what seems to be two parts: a lot of declarations and then one . The first contains
information about a lot of "pushpins," which are refer
The latter 2 KML both work with my GeoXml parser
http://www.microimages.com/ogc/newtntmap/gmap.htm?kml=http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/roman_holiday/viamargutta_strict3.kml
but the one at...
http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/roman_holiday/viamargutta.kml
is an invalid xml documen
Just in the interests of completely obsessive thoroughness, I went to
Mike's tutorials and looked at his information on KML syntax. What he
has on http://econym.org.uk/gmap/kml.htm for "KML code" looks rather
different from that of the files generated by Google Earth. So I
munged viamargutta.kml i
Not sure what it means, but there's definitely some problem with
drawing tiny polygons from a Google Earth created kml. At least, when
I just Save Place As and post it to my hosting server.
Look at
http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/roman_holiday/UntitledFolder2.kml
in Google Maps. You can
Thanks all for such prompt replies. I'll answer all your questions at
once.
> Why do you add the kml overlay, then immediately remove it?
The map opens up in a view of the whole inner city. The kml looks like
an odd funny little smudge because its polygons and lines are so
small. So I just remove
On Mar 4, 3:59 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com"
wrote:
> On Mar 4, 3:02 pm, BuckyE wrote:
>
> > The odd thing about this is that the polygons are still clickable
> > polygons. The clickable are of each is within their blue boundaries.
> > It doesn't correspond to the original areas I bounded. Google M
> It looks liek you're just passing the points to the map... Instead, I
> would recommend encoding them.
KML doesn't support poly encoding (yet)
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It looks liek you're just passing the points to the map... Instead, I
would recommend encoding them. Take a look at the Google Maps
Documentation on them here:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html,
then use this utility (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/
pol
> Any advice, especially about tests I could make, would be appreciated.
Here's a quick KML test : go to the regular Google Maps page, and
simply paste in the URL of your KML file.
Looks the same as in my browser.
I can get to it by pasting the URL
http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/roman
On Mar 4, 3:02 pm, BuckyE wrote:
> The odd thing about this is that the polygons are still clickable
> polygons. The clickable are of each is within their blue boundaries.
> It doesn't correspond to the original areas I bounded. Google Maps API
> is recognizing each polygon as such, but it's not
The odd thing about this is that the polygons are still clickable
polygons. The clickable are of each is within their blue boundaries.
It doesn't correspond to the original areas I bounded. Google Maps API
is recognizing each polygon as such, but it's not drawing them
correctly. I've made a few di
For my map
http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/roman_holiday/romanholidaymap.html
I have added a checkbox to show and hide a kml file (http://
lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/roman_holiday/viamargutta.kml). I
made the KML by drawing some polygons and adding a marker in Google
Earth, then S
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