Sudden problem with KML's in google maps

[Anythingweather]

This is my first post regarding KML's and I hope this is the right
place for it. We have been hosting KML files on our web site for
about a month. The maps outline where storms have hit a particular
area with hail damage for our clients. Up until about a week ago, the
reports could be checked and unchecked on the left hand side of the
screen. All of the sudden the check boxes are greyed out and I cannot
turn them on and off. It's driving me bonkers because all of my
clients that have access to these maps are now complaining. If anyone
can provide some guidance it would be appreciated. Is this a google
bug? There were no changes made on our server. I even went back and
looked at some prior reports that I hosted on google pages and I get
the same problem. Here is a link to an example from our server:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fanythingweather.com%2Fhailswath%2FKilgoreTXHailSWATH20080329.kml&ie=UTF8&ll=32.428658,-94.849777&spn=0.253851,0.601501&z=11

[ManoM]

Hi Anythingweather,

This appears to be isolated to Polygons. I've filed a bug with the
engineers working on Maps. We'll see what happens with it.

Mano

On Jul 21, 9:02 am, Anythingweather wrote:
> This is my first post regarding KML's and I hope this is the right
> place for it. We have been hosting KML files on our web site for
> about a month. The maps outline where storms have hit a particular
> area with hail damage for our clients. Up until about a week ago, the
> reports could be checked and unchecked on the left hand side of the
> screen. All of the sudden the check boxes are greyed out and I cannot
> turn them on and off. It's driving me bonkers because all of my
> clients that have access to these maps are now complaining. If anyone
> can provide some guidance it would be appreciated. Is this a google
> bug? There were no changes made on our server. I even went back and
> looked at some prior reports that I hosted on google pages and I get
> the same problem. Here is a link to an example from our server:
>

> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fanythingw...

[Anythingweather]

Thank you for replying. Is there any way to tell if this issue has
been captured and addressed? The issue is still occurring and I
really need the ability to check and un-check polygons. Thanks in
advance for your assistance!

On Jul 21, 1:16 pm, ManoM wrote:
> HiAnythingweather,

[ManoM]

Hi Anythingweather,

Google Engineers are looking into it.

Mano

[Bocha10]

ManoM,
This problem is not isolated to Polygons, it happens also with
LineStrings.

Another problem with kml files that appeared recently was that the
ScreenOverlay does not render the image at all in google maps.
I just found out today while trying to help another user in the Maps
Help group. He could not longer see his screen overlay, I found a few
mistakes in his file but after fixing them I still could not see the
image in the ScreenOverlay.
Finally, I brought up my own file that has always worked and surprise,
surprise my legend does not show either. I tried Firefox, IE and
Safari on Windows XP and the legend does not show at all.
However, if I open my file in Safari for Mac the legend (image in
ScreenOverlay) still shows.
What is going on?

[stillinorbit]

Hi all,

I agree with Bocha10 - I'm having the same problem with polygons as
well as linestrings.

Regarding ScreenOverlays... sometime within the last few days, Google
Maps stopped rendering my ScreenOverlays. Here's a link:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.truenorthgis.net/kenmore/screenoverlaytest.kml

and it's code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2">
<Document>
<name>screenoverlaytest</name>
<open>0</open>
<Folder>
<name>screenoverlaytest</name>
<open>0</open>
<visibility>0</visibility>
<ScreenOverlay>
<name>METAR Legend</name>
<open>0</open>
<visibility>0</visibility>
<Icon>
<href>http://www.truenorthgis.net/kenmore/metar_icons/
metarLegend.png</href>
</Icon>
<overlayXY x="0.5" y="1" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
<screenXY x="0.27" y=".99" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
<rotationXY x="0" y="0" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
<size x="0" y="0" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</ScreenOverlay>
</Folder>
</Document>
</kml>

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Stu

[Roman N]

Stu,

This is a known bug related to a very recent update to both
maps.google.com and the Maps API. We are currently investigating
possible solutions. See the relevant issue at:
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=567.

- Roman

On Aug 9, 12:00 am, stillinorbit wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I agree with Bocha10 - I'm having the same problem with polygons as
> well as linestrings.
>
> Regarding ScreenOverlays... sometime within the last few days, Google
> Maps stopped rendering my ScreenOverlays.  Here's a link:
>

> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.truenorthgis.net/kenmore/scr...