An Ordinary Geo Web Developer’s Blog

Today Google Geo Developers Blog announced KML support for Google Maps JS API v3.

There is a new class kmlLayer which supports both KML and GeoRSS. The examples are as follows :

GeoRSS Example :

var georssLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?g=322338@N20〈=en-us&format=feed-georss');
georssLayer.setMap(map);

KML Example :

var ctaLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer('http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ggeoxml/cta.kml');
ctaLayer.setMap(map);

There is also support for traffic and bicycling layers added at this version.

These are good signs to use V3 as new playground both for web and mobile applications.

GeoWeb API, GeoRSS, Google Maps, KML, V3

Please forgive me about this late post. I want to thanks everyone who voted for me at ESRI Developer Summit Mashup Challenge.  I hope all you like the “Summit ExtMap” mashup framework and use it in your projects.

The reason for this late post is “Summit ExtMap“, because I still working on framework to add some new features. The coming release will be seperated to 3 different versions as

• Summit ExtMap (for ArcGIS JS API Extension for Google Maps)
• Summit ExtMapRest (without ArcGIS JS API, works only with ArcGIS REST API and Google Maps API)
• ExtOL (Ext JS with OpenLayers supporting ArcGIS REST API)

You can choose the version suited for you. Please do not hesitate to ask for questions, new features and bugs.

Alper.

ExtMap API, ArcGIS, DevSummit, ESRI, Ext, JS, Mashup, OpenLayers, REST