On Nov 19, 5:55 pm, kalyson <[email protected]> wrote: > And I checked the links listed there -- I've seen these links. > No county kml files. I did find one for about $40.00 that is for the > entire US, however.
Did you see this (third post in my listing): http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support-getting-started/browse_thread/thread/153a3d6c3ebf5762 It had a reference to this directory: http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support/files/ Which contains this kmz file (zipped kml): http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support/files/California Counties.kmz Haven't looked at it, but... -- Larry > > On Nov 19, 4:18 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 3:36 pm, kalyson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply. I have already done a lot of searching but > > > don't see the steps for this. > > > > I am guessing that something known as a shape file is somehow > > > converted to a kml file. > > > So I can take any shape file of California counties and use one of > > > those free converters and get a klm file and just do this in my map > > > code: > > > > addOverlay(newklmfile); > > > > Is this correct? > > > > (I am surprised that a kml file --if that is indeed what Google Maps > > > requires-- for California counties is not available already > > > somewhere.) > > > Google has a search engine too... > > >http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&rls=gm&q=kml%20california... > > (looks like there are some there) > > > -- Larry > > > > Thanks, > > > Kris > > > > On Nov 19, 3:12 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > We need to add lines on our Google Map of California for all the > > > > > counties. Do I have to get a shape file and convert it to a kml file > > > > > to do a call to the addOverlay function? > > > > > More or less, yes. Try some of these for insight > > > > -http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/search?group=google-ma... -- 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=.
