KML Maps Not Rendering

[Taylor_Felt2]

I’m having a difficult time getting my kml file map to work with a latlong column type. I’ve looked through the other posts about it and it’s stored in my google drive, it begins with http and the raw file is less than 3mb. I’ve tried several variations of the google drive link and also generated a link from http://kolorobot.github.io/permalink/#. I can’t get anything to work. I would really appreciate any help or advice. It sounds like this feature may have bugs or isn’t fully devoloped… would I be better off not using it?

The map link is https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1snWtz4Z7Ji6EYBVOKMw9XGaMxVkYX88w&usp=sharing

[Taylor_Felt2 · Accepted solution]

I found the issue. It needs to be hosted on google firestore. Follow the steps in this article exactly and it should work.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/quickstart-console

[SalvadorRuz]

You can find another hosting solution for free in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PHh7a2AukY. It is in spanish but I think there should be something similar in english. I used it and worked. The difficult thing is to see the URL when you click the View button, I solved it recording the screen and pausing when the full URL appears. Suggestion: do not use spaces in the name of your file or folders. The format goes like this: http://domainname.000webhostapp.com/yourfoldername/yourfilename.kml.

Hope this could help somebody. It was a nightmare to find a way to host my kml file.