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Lazyweb! Saving KML files as KMZs can reduce them by 70% in size... any reason why this isn't cool when using them as overlays in GMaps API?

11:59AM Thu, November 25 2010

The unzipping from KMZ to KML would need to be done on the client side, and there's no way to do this in Javascript

12:01PM Thu, November 25 2010

That's obviously because KMZ uses the same algorithm as .zip files

12:02PM Thu, November 25 2010

I'm using KMZ files here: http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/online/maps/?layer=gritroads Seems like Google does the lifting?

12:03PM Thu, November 25 2010

Ah, I guess in that case they do it on their servers - map looks really nice by the way! :)

12:09PM Thu, November 25 2010

Thanks! Trying to get it done before the snow... feel like I'm on Krypton Factor or something.

12:12PM Thu, November 25 2010

Ha! Coding and frantically looking out the window for snow flakes?

12:13PM Thu, November 25 2010

Totally! I bet it doesn't even happen here! Enjoying V3 of the GMaps API... the KMZ file reduction feels too good to be true tho.

12:19PM Thu, November 25 2010

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