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EricR
EricR

Reputation: 1497

Google Maps kml files

If I use an embeded google map in my website, will the data contained in an kml displayed be publicly viewable?

Will it be possible for the user to access just the data displayed (i.e., not the user interface) or would I have to provide that separately?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6230

Answers (3)

Alex Willison
Alex Willison

Reputation: 267

I just upgraded my Google Maps JavaScript API Application from v2 to v3, following these instructions.

My v2 application was using the EGeoXml extension referred to by @Marcelo in the accepted answer to locally parse KML data.

A substitution of geoxml3 in its place, as suggested by @geocodezip (a contributor to the project) in a comment, functioned immediately in my v3 application.

Upvotes: 0

Marcelo
Marcelo

Reputation: 9407

If you load your KML through the API, with GGeoXml(), (V2), or KmlLayer(), (V3), then your data needs to be in a public server because it is parsed by Google's servers and they need to be able to get to it. If you load it with a third party extension then you can keep it private.

Third party extensions that can load and parse KML data are EGeoXml() by Mike Williams

http://econym.org.uk/gmap/extensions.htm#EGeoXml

and GeoXml() by Lance Dyas

http://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/

but I believe that both of those are only available for the API V2 for now.

Upvotes: 12

thelost
thelost

Reputation: 6694

No, the data will not be public. I'm not sure about your other question though.

Upvotes: -1

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