Geoxml3 Shows Unable to retrieve Kml file - google-maps-api-3

i went through lots of answers posted regarding the below question.
i wanted to retrieve the kml file from the local and so i used geoxml
var myParser = new geoXML3.parser({ map: map });
myParser.parse('indiastatev2.kml');
here is the code which i am trying to make work
my file is stored here in this folder
i am not able to get the file path to pass in
here are the solution which i tried doing it in different ways
myParser.parse('~/Content/KmlData/indiastatev2.kml');
myParser.parse('../../Content/KmlData/indiastatev2.kml');
none of them is working
this is what i am getting each time
here is my script
i had already tried putting down the kml file in same folder but it didnt work
please suggest me something to make it work

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Solutions:
There are two ways you can follow:
Solution 1:
Use SpreadsheetApp.openById(id) or SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl(url):
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I wanted to place a google static map in a pdffile generated by using the fpdf extension.
and used code to make a tempfile first. Using this code. However I run into an error ('can't open image file').
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Then I found out it can be done much easier... I don't need to use a tempfile. If I put the url in the image variable and give a format the thing works in two lines.. I don't use the height and width parameters in fpdf because they stretch the image into a unreadable form.
$fullURL = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=". \
$row-Google_coor."&zoom=10&size=2200x200\
&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:D%7C".$row->Google_coor;
$this->Image($fullURL,$start_x, $this->GetY(),0,0,"PNG");
Saddly when using this function sometimes the program returns an error. The image could not be found. But when I put the url string in the browser the image shows up fine. Hopefully this is also a minor fallback.
Lets see if I find a solution on the google apis site https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/?csw=1
For what it is worth I had this problem as well, I found that my server had an outgoing connections manager, this would automatically block the request, I had to add the ip, once this was done it worked fine.
I had a problem similiar to the OP's. I was getting an error when using FPDF and trying to get the static map image from Google Maps and into my PDF. I was getting "FPDF error: Missing or incorrect image file". What I did is to register in the Google Developer Console and get an API Key, just like they say in the documentation
Hope this helps.
You can download the image and use it with fpdf
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$img = __DIR__.'/img/map.png';
file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url));
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I need to display google map with zip code boundaries like this
http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm
Perhaps I am overlooking it, but I've not been to find examples of this and documentation talking about this specifically at Google Maps API documentation. I've trying doing a view source on the above web page link, but it doesn't seem obvious to me how it works. There is also other stuff on the page which I don't know if it's part of what I need or not.
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If anyone still looking for the solution here is how I managed to draw boundaries.
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Create free account on cartodb
Upload zipRegions.json file there
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Simply by code like this
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zoom: 12,
center: new google.maps.LatLng(42.1038846,-72.5868353),
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
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type: 'cartodb',
sublayers: [
{
sql: "SELECT * FROM cartodb1",
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console.log(e);
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Google Maps API will not provide you with this data. You need an external source. A Fusion Table could be of some help. You can check this one *.
You then need to create your own layers from the KML data that is in the table. There is documentation about it.
You can render the data directly from the Fusion Table or import it to your own database, which is often preferable for performance.
Hope this helps to get you started. Try to find your way and if you are stuck, then ask another question and show us your code as the first comment suggests.
* FusionTables was discontinued on 3 December 2019.
Working on the same thing and found boundaries-io way too expensive for our use case.
Check out https://www.maptechnica.com/
Much larger data set
Much more affordable
I parsed the 2016 census kml file (over 150MB) to over 32,000 individual kml files you can use as a kml layer for your maps.
I put a zip file here:
https://github.com/tomeralmog/zipcode-kml
Hope this helps
A Very Simply API exists for this query by zipcode,city,etc.. returns geoJson
http://www.boundaries-io.com
Image of the results in GooleMap:
I know this is a relatively old question and #tomer-almog has done some great work making KML files, but I stumbled on this free resource (no relation, just using the data) that has zip code data in verious geo formats (GeoJSON, KML, etc)
https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/us-zip-code-latitude-and-longitude/table/
Might be usefull for someone....

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I am attempting to follow mbostock's "Let's Make a Map" Tutorial here: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/. At a certain point in the tutorial, he writes:
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Without seeing the format of his topoJSON file, it is hard to determine what the equivalent "uk.objects.subunits" line is for my code (my topoJSON can be viewed here: https://gist.github.com/jcahan/e1772766f01b68b00dc9).
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[[1]],[[2]],[[3]],[[4]],[[5]],[[6,7,8,9]]],"properties":{"name":"England"}},
You can see the hierarchy of uk.objects.subunits
subunits contains the GeometryCollection. Have a look at your json file and do the same.
Double check that this instruction from Mike is working:
d3.json("uk.json", function(error, uk) {
console.log(uk);
});
Now if you peek at your JavaScript console, you should see a topology object that represents the administrative boundaries and populated places of the United Kingdom.
If you get it to work, let me know, as I cannot get my personal TopoJSON file to load, although I can get all of Mike's to do so. I've come to the conclusion that my TopoJSON file must be wrong somehow.
Sure.
That JSON file happens to be close friend (actually a neightboor) of the example. So you can see it atthe http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/uk.json
Regards.

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