I'm wondering if people have had any luck finding ways to get the custom icons in a KML to display reliably when using the Maps API v3? We are about to dive into an Open Layers alternative solution but I so hate to give up this GM approach.
Here is a link to my map within the Maps API page: http://www.lre-projects.com/AHPS/index.html Here is a link to the KML: http://www.lre-projects.net/UDFCD/ahps/includes/lre/kml/udfcd_alert_current.kml On any given day all the custom icons may appear or they may not, or they may partially. Refreshing may result in different custom icons displaying than before. I have tried moving the KML and/or cutom icon .png files around to different servers, including Google's own servers (google sites file sharing page). All locations work intermittently, and none noticably better than others over time. The reliability of the icons does seem better for a day or so after each move to a new location, making me wonder if Google's caching has something to do with it, somehow (I have a timestamp parameter appended to my KML call to overcome the KML caching). I've tried relative paths to icon files that sit in the same web folder as the KML. I've tried full url paths to the files, on the same server as the KML and on a different server from the KML. Anyway, I'd love to hear if anyone has found out something that can help improve this. ~Kelly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
