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Title: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 10:01:43: I have a kml file (map data), that I want to embed into a website. It contains place markers for information. I embedded it to my personal blog for testing, the embedding appears to work, but the place markers don't show e.g. I have an empty map. The place markers show on my personal computer, locally.

I know SFA about this, so does anyone have any advice. :undecided:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Doggie 1 on May 12, 2013, 10:04:46: KML? SFA?
NFI.
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: The Gonz on May 12, 2013, 10:15:56: Have you followed the online tutorials?
KML (https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kml_tut)
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: thommo101 on May 12, 2013, 10:17:53: The below page may give you some pointers:
http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla-Google-Maps-Samples/Use-KML-file-to-place-multiple-markers-on-Google-Maps.php (http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla-Google-Maps-Samples/Use-KML-file-to-place-multiple-markers-on-Google-Maps.php)
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 10:26:57: Thanks chaps,

The kml has been generated and created in Google Earth, not Google maps. It displays on my machine, so I put it to Skydrive so I could embed it. After generating the link in Skydrive, I used this for the embedding source. When the embedded was posted in my blog, the earth shows but not the data. I have followed their step by step instructions. :Dunno:

Thanks for the responses so far :goodjob2:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Doggie 1 on May 12, 2013, 10:29:04: You're welcome. :)
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 10:30:44: You've been a GREAT help. :whistler:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Doggie 1 on May 12, 2013, 10:31:16: :hatoff:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: The Gonz on May 12, 2013, 11:16:04: Maybe this will help (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14453373/kml-work-on-local-ge-doesnt-in-html)
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 11:21:03: Err, if I were a computer, it might help but to me it's 2 x Dutch. :Shocked:

What I was hoping for was someone with the same problem, to provide a quick solution. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: The Gonz on May 12, 2013, 11:29:01: Your initial problem definition included 'local' and 'server' so the link and the follow-on link (Localhost Development Options (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6092110/google-maps-api-and-kml-file-localhost-development-options)) seemed relevant. These discussions are from others who have met with such problems. :Dunno:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 11:47:16: Yes, but they involve code, I gave that up years ago.

Google Earth exist so that people can share their specific information with others. If I wanted an empty map of the Earth I'd use an Atlas. This sort of problem just reinforces my dislike of anything to do with modern technology. Really great ideas, when they work. :foottap:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: The Gonz on May 12, 2013, 11:54:37: Quote from: Phil. on May 12, 2013, 11:47:16
Yes, but they involve code, I gave that up years ago.
I can relate to the sentiment, Phil. After decades of coding from Assembler to Java, and everything in between such as COBOL that failed to make me rich during Y2K, now that I've taken up Linux, I've become a notorious 'Just give me something that works' user. :lol:

Nice thing about Linux is that it just does. :cool:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Just Rick on May 12, 2013, 12:47:36: Quote from: Phil. on May 12, 2013, 11:47:16
Yes, but that invovled coke, I gave that up years ago.

There Ya go Phil I fixed it for Ya,yeah I gave it up years ago too :rofl:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 12:49:04: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :goodjob2:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Surferdude on May 12, 2013, 13:02:41: Quote from: Phil. on May 12, 2013, 12:49:04
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :goodjob2:
I take it your "Test" worked Phil.
And saying "Ignore" to us lot is like putting a "wet paint" sign on a freshly painted wall. :happydance:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: The Gonz on May 12, 2013, 13:08:33: Does that mean you got it working? I was expecting it might have been to do with relative versus absolute URL tags. :wink:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 12, 2013, 13:11:01: @surferdude, That's why I changed it :snigger:

@Gonz, No, just making sure an embedded url works, which it seems to, but I need advice from Shambles and no, there is still no data, just Earth.
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Shambles on May 12, 2013, 14:52:29: Years since I worked on the club's .kml file. I remember then how tough it was as Gooble kept changing their APIs.

I'll have a look later as I've been up on my roof dismantling and realigning my gutters. Why does heat expand things then cool weather allow them to contract. It's not fair.
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Phil №❶ on May 13, 2013, 01:12:06: I've never had to mess with gutters for that reason, only to clean them. Is it a common problem :question:
Title: Re: Internet help required
Post by: Doggie 1 on May 13, 2013, 01:14:00: Quote from: Shambles on May 12, 2013, 14:52:29
Years since I worked on the club's .kml file. I remember then how tough it was as Gooble kept changing their APIs.

I'll have a look later as I've been up on my roof dismantling and realigning my gutters. Why does heat expand things then cool weather allow them to contract. It's not fair.

If you lived in Australia, you'd find that everything just keeps on getting bigger because of the heat.
That reminds me, I must pop in and see my tailor again today.