OK, thanks for shedding some light on the matter. I plan to switch to KMZ,
and I certainly won't be serving from SVN in production! The random numbers,
too, will disappear in production.
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For those interested, here's the command I used to time downloads:
time wget -S
http://foothill-web-gis.googlecode.com/svn/data/rooms1.kml?randomnumberhere
Looking at the download speed is insufficient as it doesn't take into
account the size of the file, or request latency.
Regards,
James
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Hi Matt,
You are correct in inferring that the file is taking too long to fetch.
By appending a random number (to prevent Google caching the file) you
are effectively making the KML file dynamic - Google must download and
parse the file every time you change that random number.
I used wget to ti
By the way,
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/forum.html?place=forum/google-maps-js-api-v3seems
to be related, but they're discussing dynamically generated KML and
this is static and there doesn't seem to be an answer there either. Meant to
mention this thread in the ori
