[OpenLayers-Dev] bad misaligning of KML point layers?

[Lance Dyas]

Thank you for looking in to the problem I have enough irons in enough
fires this wasnt really high on the list... but I definitely appreciate it.
How can one cope with miscellaneous kml in the wild that dont follow
these kind of guidelines... ??

Roald de Wit wrote:
> Hi Lance,
>
> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 13:38 -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
>   
>> In OpenLayers nightly Trunk
>> http://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/kml-point-layer.html
>>
>> in Google Maps
>> http://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/japan.htm
>>
>>     
> Thank you for reporting this. I've created a ticket [1] and attached a
> patch that solves part of your problem.
>
> The KML styling code did not properly handle hotSpot nodes. That should
> be fixed in the patch. Hopefully this fix will make it into 2.6.
>
> In your case, you need to change your KML styles a bit. This is because
> your icons are 64x64 pixels and OL has no way of knowing this.
> You can do one of the following:
> - set the <w> and <h> value within <Icon> to 64
> - set the hotspot units to 'fraction' and set <x> to 0.5
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards, Roald
>
> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1426
>