topic Re: Any plans to allow loading KML/KMZ files without ArcGIS Online / Portal? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429635#M39460 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Until they can push it off to the client, I would say no. It needs to be publicly accessible since the class actually makes a call to an Esri utility (you probably already know this):</P><P></P><P><A href="http://utility.arcgis.com/sharing/kml" title="http://utility.arcgis.com/sharing/kml">http://utility.arcgis.com/sharing/kml</A> </P><P></P><P>You may have also stumbled upon this thread:</P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/38487">Loading Dynamic KML from web service</A></P><P></P><P>I was thinking along the same lines as the OP in hosting the utility locally, or maybe creating the functionality locally. Esri said this wasn't possible, but technically, I think it should be... </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:41:00 GMT ChrisSmith7 2015-12-15T22:41:00Z Any plans to allow loading KML/KMZ files without ArcGIS Online / Portal? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429634#M39459 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Are there any plans to allow loading KML files that are not publicly accessible? </P><P></P><P>Sharing the KML file as a service to Server and Portal isn't a viable route I could use.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:49:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429634#M39459 JamesTruong 2015-12-15T20:49:08Z Re: Any plans to allow loading KML/KMZ files without ArcGIS Online / Portal? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429635#M39460 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Until they can push it off to the client, I would say no. It needs to be publicly accessible since the class actually makes a call to an Esri utility (you probably already know this):</P><P></P><P><A href="http://utility.arcgis.com/sharing/kml" title="http://utility.arcgis.com/sharing/kml">http://utility.arcgis.com/sharing/kml</A> </P><P></P><P>You may have also stumbled upon this thread:</P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/38487">Loading Dynamic KML from web service</A></P><P></P><P>I was thinking along the same lines as the OP in hosting the utility locally, or maybe creating the functionality locally. Esri said this wasn't possible, but technically, I think it should be... </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:41:00 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429635#M39460 ChrisSmith7 2015-12-15T22:41:00Z Re: Any plans to allow loading KML/KMZ files without ArcGIS Online / Portal? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429636#M39461 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Your other option, of course, is to parse the KML file and create a featureLayer on the fly. KML files are just XML anyways so, for simple KMLs of points (and possibly lines), this wouldn't be that difficult (albeit tedious).</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:44:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429636#M39461 SteveCole 2015-12-15T22:44:13Z Re: Any plans to allow loading KML/KMZ files without ArcGIS Online / Portal? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429637#M39462 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Maybe this would be a solution?</P><P></P><P><A href="https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson" title="https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson">mapbox/togeojson · GitHub</A></P><P></P><P>Found it thanks to <A href="https://community.esri.com/migrated-users/13452">Jeff Jacobson</A> in this thread -&nbsp; <A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/94374">Is there any way to add KML,KMZ and CSV file from local drive/folder in web app?</A></P><P></P><P>Oh, just as a plug for the Terrformer JSON parsing Jeff mentioned, I have a Runnable demo in case anyone is interested - <A href="http://code.runnable.com/Vfig_eplbl55NWA1/terraformer-demo-for-node-js" title="http://code.runnable.com/Vfig_eplbl55NWA1/terraformer-demo-for-node-js">http://code.runnable.com/Vfig_eplbl55NWA1/terraformer-demo-for-node-js</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:54:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429637#M39462 ChrisSmith7 2015-12-15T22:54:35Z Re: Any plans to allow loading KML/KMZ files without ArcGIS Online / Portal? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429638#M39463 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks.</P><P></P><P>I'm kinda of working on a parital workaround with</P><P><A href="https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson" title="https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson">mapbox/togeojson · GitHub</A></P><P><A href="https://github.com/Esri/geojson-layer-js" title="https://github.com/Esri/geojson-layer-js">Esri/geojson-layer-js · GitHub</A></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="text-decoration: line-through;">Still haven't got it to work yet ...</SPAN> <SPAN style="text-decoration: line-through;">Problem with the data structure going through geojson layer.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="text-decoration: line-through;">Though I'm just feeding in the Object[] (features?) in the data</SPAN></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:43:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/any-plans-to-allow-loading-kml-kmz-files-without/m-p/429638#M39463 JamesTruong 2015-12-15T23:43:55Z