get a googlepages account, and put stuff up there to make it public-
On Oct 1, 7:51 pm, Lance Dyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your path is to an external webserver.. not localhost > to get something like that to work you need a proxy > script of some sort. > > var path = ["http://mapgadgets.googlepages.com/cta.kml";]; > > in other words you just posted something other than what you described. > > Taylor wrote: > > Help! I am new to the Maps API world and am trying to figure out how > > to visualize a .kml file in my Google Map. The catch is that I can > > only work from my local machine, so from what I have read the GGeoXml > > functionality won't work since the reference to my .kml file will be > >http://localhost/...kmland not a public URL that google has access > > to. > > > I came across the GeoXML functionality > > fromhttp://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/. > > > Am I right in that you can use this geoxmlfull.js script instead of > > the GGeoXml function? > > > I am having trouble getting anything to work from this geoxmlfull.js > > script. I have downloaded the script and placed it in myhttp://localhost > > folder. Below is the code I am using to try and visualize someone > > else's .kml file. I have also tried this code to visualize my own kml > > file which also resides in thehttp://localhostfolder. Can anyone > > help? My goal is to be able to see the .kml file in thehttp://localhost > > folder. The key I got from google was for thehttp://localhostURL. > > > I am sorry about the code post, but I don't know how to share any more > > efficiently. > > > Thank you!!!! > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > > <head> > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/ > > > <title>Google Maps JavaScript API Example</title> > > <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps? > > file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAAoVq8d0aZElfu2eUGkhFdzhT2yXp_ZAY8_ufC3CFXhH > > IE1NvwkxQXOns9BCCyQuULtRV8q3B3RH_j3A" > > type="text/javascript"></script> > > > <script src="geoxmlfull.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > > </head> > > > <body onunload="GUnload()"> > > <div id="map_canvas" style="width: 500px; height: 300px"></div> > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > > if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { > > //<![CDATA[ > > map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), > > {draggableCursor: 'crosshair', draggingCursor: 'move', > > iconFromDescription:true}); > > > map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl()); > > map.setCenter(new GLatLng(41.897332, -87.749474), 10); > > map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl()); > > map.enableScrollWheelZoom(); > > map.enableDoubleClickZoom(); > > > var path = ["http://mapgadgets.googlepages.com/cta.kml";]; > > var exml = new GeoXml("exml", map, path); > > exml.parse(); > > //]]> > > > } > > </script> > > </body> > > </html> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
