Thanks! On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 2, 7:36 pm, Timothy Collins <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's not so much a problem - I can load and use the KML files with no >> problem (This is a google gadget that i am playing with), and i can >> load in GeoRSS feeds that I run across. What I am lacking is some of >> the basic reasoning that Google Maps has that says "This RSS feed will >> work but this one won't"... > > I guess you are using GGeoXml then (which isn't the same as the third- > party GeoXml, confusing huh) > > Try - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS > which leads to > http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html > which is old, but hints that there are limitations - one common one is > the size of the KML/GeoRSS to parsed is limited. > This - > http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/mapsSupport.html > spells out KML limitations for GGeoXml, it would be reasonable to > guess that the same parser has similar limitations for GeoRSS > > cheers, Ross K > > Google provides examples that seem to work >> nicely, but doesn't actually explain the concept of what GeoRSS feeds >> are or where to find them... >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I can implement and use the normal one - traffic, panoramio and >> >> wikipedia... but I can't seem to figure out how to go about finding >> >> other ones (I would like to add weather to a map, for example, and >> >> every URI I try to use simply doesn't display)... >> >> > I'm not sure what you're trying to do, as you don't provide any link. >> > Perhaps you're trying to show other people's XML data on your webpage, >> > in which case you will run into the 'cross-domain restriction' which >> > is something you can search about. >> >> >> Can someone explain to me what this is? Google has examples of the >> >> GLayer and addOverlay object/methods but never actually get's around >> >> to explaining the basics of it... >> >> > Which basics do you think are missing? >> > Have you seen this alternative general tutorial >> > http://econym.org.uk/gmap/ >> >> > cheers, Ross K- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > >
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