I tried using the nightly build and it worked, thanks!
Christopher Schmidt wrote: > 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, > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
