There is an issue for this: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=183
(star it!) On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM, epoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok chaps, I've come up with a 'solution'. I simply wrote a java > servlet this exists on my web server in the root directory called > 'mapsatt'. This servlet grabs the query string, makes a request of > "http://maps.google.com/mapsatt"; with the same query string and pipes > the result back out. Not ideal, but as a work around, it does the job. > > On Oct 22, 3:05 pm, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, I've been looking into this further and something somewhere >> doesn't make sense. >> >> The marker icons are also loaded directly from within the KMZ file and >> they load when using the demo Google Maps API, yet the images that >> should go in the balloons don't. >> >> For example the url in the generated page on Google Maps for the >> marker icon and for one of the photos are >> /mapsatt?id=http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mark/blog/blog_files/journeys/ >> to_work.kmz&f=camera.png >> /mapsatt?id=http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mark/blog/blog_files/journeys/ >> to_work.kmz&f=p13.jpg >> >> When using the demo app the two urls are the same. >> >> The problem seems to arise in that the resolution of these URLs is >> done differently. On Google Maps they both get expanded >> tohttp://maps.google.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mark/blo...http://maps.google.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mark/blo... >> >> yet when using the GGeoXml demo they get expanded >> tohttp://maps.google.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mark/blo...http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.dcs.shef.ac... >> >> So for some reason the marker icon is being resolved correctly to load >> from the KMZ file referenced through the google maps servers where as >> the image is being resolved against the server hosting the API demo. >> I'm guessing that this is definitely a bug in the Google Maps API >> code. As I haven't played around too much with the API yet (read some >> of it but not tried writing any code), is it possible to access the >> html generated by GGeoXml? If so a script could be run to fix these >> URLs after the KMZ file had been loaded. >> >> I might start digging in and writing some code to see if this is >> doable until a permanent fix appears in a later version of the API. >> >> Hope that sheds some light on the problem for other people. > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
