On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:16:24AM -0500, Michael Angstadt wrote: > Thanks for the thorough and very quick response! > > > 1. You're probably violating the same origin policy. > > > > http://faq.openlayers.org/proxyhost/all/ > > > > (Unless your HTML page is hosted on cbsnews.com, which is possible, > > but seems unlikely.) > I am indeed using a proxy. I set the ProxyHost variable right after I > create the Map object: > OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "proxy?url="; > > > 2. You're attempting to load a NetworkLink. OpenLayers 2.7 does not > > support NetworkLinks, which was recently fixed in SVN. You can set > > your KML file to maxDepth: 2 or some such, and it will parse the > > networklink in the file you have but... > So you're saying that 2.7 *does* support NetworkLinks--you just have to > set the matchDepth property?
no, sorry: I'm saying "2.7 was buggy, SVN is fixed." http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1877 Sorry that was unclear. > >Quite simply, the CBS news feed doesn't contain any locations, only > >addresses, so you need a full gazetteer for it to work. Calling this KML > >at all is simply more evidence that the KML spec is hopelessly > >overbroad, and since not even Google will read it, I have no qualms > >saying that OpenLayers won't. > Yeah, that feed was kind of odd. I found another one with actual > coordinates[1]. Like the CBSNews feed, it has a NetworkLink tag, which > links to another KML file with the actual map data. It works fine if I > plug it into Google Maps (it displays a number of points and vectors in > central Africa). However, I can't get it to work in OpenLayers. > Maybe it has something to do with it not using the proxy to load the > NetworkLink URL? If so, how can I get it to do this? I have the > maxDepth of the KML layer set to 3. > > [1] http://www.janegoodall.org/news/gombe-blog/feed/gcb-feed.kml This works fine in OL SVN: 1. Open http://crschmidt.net/mapping/kml 2. Paste URL 3. Click "submit" 4. See little icons and lines between them. But it won't work in 2.7 unless you open the feed with the content: http://www.janegoodall.org/news/gombe-blog/feed/gcb-feed2.kml Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
