On Nov 19, 6:00 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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_thr... > > 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...
seems to look like it might be what you are looking for... http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.geocodezip.com%2FCaliforniaCounties.xml&sll=37.351204,-121.891094&sspn=0.011565,0.01811&ie=UTF8&z=6 -- 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=.
