<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' background='none' style='font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);width:100%;'><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><div id="yiv1291607124">&gt;On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:04:47PM +0000, barney holmes &gt;wrote:<br>&gt;&gt; The larger KML file that I use is 3.5 mb.<br><br>&gt; Loading 3.5 MB of XML into a browser is simply not going to <br>&gt; work. You'll<br>&gt; have to find a different solution.<br><br>&gt; Browsers just don't deal well with XML that big. Just getting the <br>&gt; XML<br>&gt; out is a lion's share of the time (determined by profiling). <br><br>Thanks, but I don't really understand your statement. Google Earth can load huge KML layers, although I think it might be using some kind of scaling.
 See...<br><br>http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=13.923404,-7.03125&amp;spn=170.980165,360&amp;t=h&amp;z=1&amp;lci=lmc:panoramio,lmc:wikipedia_en<br><br>If OL cannot load large KML layers is there anything already in the code I can use ? Or maybe future development will include a scaling function for large layers ?<br><br>Anyone else have any ideas ?<br><br>&gt; Regards,<br>&gt; -- <br>&gt; Christopher Schmidt<br>&gt; MetaCarta<br><br>Barney Holmes<br><br><img src="http://freespace.virgin.net/barney.holmes1/images/space_shave.gif" width="56" height="70"><img src="http://freespace.virgin.net/barney.holmes1/images/space_water.gif" width="64" height="70"><img src="http://freespace.virgin.net/barney.holmes1/images/mro.gif" width="89" height="70"><img src="http://freespace.virgin.net/barney.holmes1/images/holographic_navigation_apophysis.jpg" width="150" height="70"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://djbarney.org">Portal</a>, <a
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