On Dec 6, 3:51 pm, Kelly Close <[email protected]> wrote:
> I posted this first in the V2 forum before realizing I was in the
> wrong place. Sorry for the cross post! We are using the Maps API V3.
>
> I've had really inconsistent success getting the custom icons to
> display correctly in KML files that are being displayed using the
> Google Maps API. Some days the icons all display perfectly (back in
> October), and then they started to be sporadically replaced with the
> default blue icon (early November). Then they started working again
> (November 22nd), but it's all blue markers again (with a very
> occasional and sporadic custom icon rendering). I read some threads
> on the My Maps forum and saw that Google has been making some code
> changes that could be affecting this so I just don't know what to
> troubleshoot!
>
> These are large KML files (several hundreds of points) which in which
> I use style-sheet like references to custom icon files (see example
> below). The KML files are generated with code which I can re-write if
> the style-sheet-like approach to referencing custom icons is just not
> going to be reliable, but this would take some time and I'd like to be
> sure it's necessary. Is the Google Maps API supposed to reliably
> handle this kind of icon reference in KML's? If not, what would be
> the preferred way to reference custom icon files for placemarks, if
> the KML is going to be rendered with the Google Maps API?
>
> Here are some details about my approach. Should this be working?
>
> The custom icons are referenced by establishing Style id's at the top
> of each KML:
> <Style id='diversion'>
> <IconStyle>
> <Icon><href>diversion.png</href></Icon>
> </IconStyle>
> <LabelStyle>
> <scale>0</scale>
> </LabelStyle>
> </Style>
>
> Each placemark references the appropriate style id:
> <Placemark>
> <name>MEEKER DEMAND</name>
> <description>Node ID: 950810</description>
> <styleUrl>#diversion</styleUrl>
> <Point><coordinates>-107.914918196241743,40.032954697618642</
> coordinates></Point>
> </Placemark>
>
> We are calling the KML's using the Google Maps API like so:
>
> var mapNodeSelection = new
> google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);
>
> var kmlNodeLayer = new
> google.maps.KmlLayer('http://www.publicwebfolder.com/Nodes.kml',
This is not a public web server, it won't work. If it is just "an
example", please don't do that it just wastes time.
-- Larry
{supressInfoWindows:false,
> preserveViewport: true, map: mapNodeSelection}
>
> And then rendering the "map_canvas" element in html with a div tag.
>
> Thanks! ~Kelly
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