Hi, I'm wondering if people have had more luck finding a way to get the custom icons in a KML to display reliably when using the Maps API v3? I just added the version parameter to my code (I tried both 3.6 and 3.7) rather than letting it use the nightly build, but alas, it did not seem to have an effect.
Here is a link to my map within the Maps API page (development version - I might be working on it!): http://www.lre-projects.net/UDFCD/ahps/includes/lre/ahpsmap.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. Yesterday it was perfect, all day - I wish I could reference THAT particular nightly build and see if that was the reason! But my guess is that it wasn't - I still have not seen a pattern in when the icons display and when they don't, and I've been experimenting with this now since last October, but I'm starting to think it really just boils down to response time, google's tight time- out constraints, and the load on the internet "pipes" involved in moving my data around. I have tried moving the KML and/or cutom icon .png files around to different servers, the fastest ones I can get my hands on, including Google's own servers (google sites file sharing page). All location combinations have worked 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 (I am using a timestamp parameter appended to my KML call to overcome the KML caching, but what about the custom icon file 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. I think I have better luck when I keep the PNG files in the same folder as the KML and use relative paths, but it's hard to tell. Anyway, I'd love to hear if anyone more ideas for me to try! Thanks. ~Kelly On Feb 14, 11:36 am, Pil <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 14, 3:23 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" > > > That is all well and good. But specifying v=3.6 on a local copy of > > that page shows all themarkers, while the nightly build does not. > > Lesser fault tolerance is often better, more stable and more robust. > Try to replace the id attributes with class attributes. -- 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.
