API unable to load PNG image in KMZ file

[weekend]

Okay, I've tried a few different fixes and will outline them here.

File in question: http://www.vicinitynyc.com/maps/UnionSq.kmz

The file loads in GoogleMaps and Earth, and kml validator shows nothing of note.

One curious error was that when the API was trying to load the PNG it was calling www.vicinitynyc.com/mapsatt and trying to pass it the PNG file, but I've read that is a bug and it needs to be calling maps.google.com/mapsatt so I made a /mapsatt directory and placed a index.php file there that forwards the request. The error disappears, but still no image.

The website this is happening on is www.vicinitynyc.com in the small textfield I Loaded you can copy and paste the map file URL and hit Map File.

[James McGill]

Hi,

Loading the PNG from www.vicinitynyc.com/mapsatt is a bug that we're working to fix. If you file a bug in the external issue tracker, we'll update it with progress.

In the meantime, it looks like your PHP script isn't forwarding the request as you describe:

http://www.vicinitynyc.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.vicinitynyc.com/maps/UnionSq.kmz&f=_agse669e0e8005449db80a6b5e75b0be482.png returns a 404.

http://maps.google.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.vicinitynyc.com/maps/UnionSq.kmz&f=_agse669e0e8005449db80a6b5e75b0be482.png returns the PNG file.

Once the bug is fixed, I strongly recommend removing this forwarding logic as it may cause problems in the future if we change the URL format.

Regards,

James

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[weekend]

My PHP is pretty weak. Why would:

header(“Location: http://www.maps.google.com/mapsatt?$_SERVER[QUERY_STRING]“);

not work? It's the only line of index.php stored in /mapsatt

[weekend]

Okay. I have fixed my PHP, silly error. But now I get no GET error in
console, and the PNG image still does not load.

Any ideas?

On Aug 1, 10:09 pm, James McGill <jmcg...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Loading the PNG fromwww.vicinitynyc.com/mapsattis a bug that we're working

> to fix. If you file a bug in the external issue tracker, we'll update it
> with progress.
>
> In the meantime, it looks like your PHP script isn't forwarding the request
> as you describe:
>

> http://www.vicinitynyc.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.vicinitynyc.com/maps...
> returns
> a 404.
>
> http://maps.google.com/mapsatt?id=http://www.vicinitynyc.com/maps/Uni...

> returns
> the PNG file.
>
> Once the bug is fixed, I strongly recommend removing this forwarding logic
> as it may cause problems in the future if we change the URL format.
>
> Regards,
> James
>

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:40 PM, weekend <mehin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, I've tried a few different fixes and will outline them here.
>
> > File in question:http://www.vicinitynyc.com/maps/UnionSq.kmz
>
> > The file loads in GoogleMaps and Earth, and kml validator shows nothing of
> > note.
>
> > One curious error was that when the API was trying to load the PNG it was

> > callingwww.vicinitynyc.com/mapsattand trying to pass it the PNG file,

> > but I've read that is a bug and it needs to be calling
> > maps.google.com/mapsatt so I made a /mapsatt directory and placed a
> > index.php file there that forwards the request. The error disappears, but
> > still no image.
>

> > The website this is happening on iswww.vicinitynyc.comin the small

[weekend]

Fixed. Thanks all. Time for a PHP book.....

[Rossko]

> Okay. I have fixed my PHP, silly error. But now I get no GET error in
> console, and the PNG image still does not load.

Works in maps.google.com, sometimes it takes time for changes to get
through the caching.