topic Re: KML not working? in ArcGIS Online Questions

KML not working?

MaraKaminowitz — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:45 GMT

Hello,

About a month ago I uploaded a kml and created a web map and they worked perfectly. Now, I can neither view the we bmap nor the kml in ArcGIS.com. After a long pause I get the following error:

"The KML, Access to Rails 2010, is not available or cannot be added to the map."

I tried uploading a new kml and can't see that one either. I can download the kml so I know the data is intact. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Re: KML not working?

MikeMinami — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:34:14 GMT

Can you share the URL to the KML you're having trouble with?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: KML not working?

MaraKaminowitz — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:23:48 GMT

Can you share the URL to the KML you're having trouble with?

Thanks,

Mike

http://bit.ly/seXMPo

I went to check the URL and it's back! It was gone all last week. I know because I spent hours reconstructing it 1 shapefile at a time.

Re: KML not working?

ClemHenriksen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:42:05 GMT

I tried adding this KML from this URL:
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml

and it does not display in web viewer. It does, however, show up 3 times in the ToC.
I made a web map and shared it at http://bit.ly/yxhDN1

thanks.

clem

Re: KML not working?

MikeMinami — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:02:27 GMT

Clem,

I think the reason why it doesn�??t work in arcgis online is because the file has several recursive link references.

The file:
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml
internally references:
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/latest_update.kml
which also references:
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/01-11-2012_Imagery_Update.kmz

You can put the last one in arcgis online and it works. I think this is a limitation, but we'll have to investigate further.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: KML not working?

ClemHenriksen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:29:01 GMT

hi,

tried it again today with the last KML URL but it did not work for me.

http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/01-11-2012_Imagery_Update.kmz

it generates a error box and says it encountered an error while loading. Maybe to large?

thanks.

clem

Re: KML not working?

MikeMinami — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:13:21 GMT

which web browser are you using? I tried it in Chrome, and it seemed to work.

Mike

Re: KML not working?

ClemHenriksen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:07:28 GMT

IE 9
Firefox - yes, kml shows up in ToC and map

that darn IE...

Re: KML not working?

MikeMinami — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:59:09 GMT

I'm not sure why it's not working in IE9. I do see the data from the KML coming back to the browser for drawing, but it may be that there are too many features to draw and IE9 isn't able to draw them. I've written up a report so that we can investigate this further.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: KML not working?

TonyHuynh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:17:55 GMT

Hi there,

Since I have a KML related question.. I hope it's okay if I ask my question in this thread.

When I tried add this one specific KML layer from the web, I receive the following error message: The KML, http://wdssii.nssl.noaa.gov/realtime/nws_warnings.kmz, cannot be added to the map. Anerror occurred during loading.

Any tips on how to go about it?

Thank you!

Re: KML not working?

MikeMinami — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:54:49 GMT

Tony,

it's working for me. What browser are you using? Perhaps Internet Explorer?

You do have to navigate the heirarchy of the Contents panel to turn layers on.

THanks,

Mike

Re: KML not working?

MikeMinami — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:53:55 GMT

Clem,

Turns out your KML is regionated KML, which we don't currently support. That's why it didn't display initially. THe reason we were able to get it to work is after you got to the base KML, it didn't specify regions.

Thanks,

Mike