KMZ Output
raintonr - August 1, 2008 - 03:40
| Project: | KML module |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
KML is fine, but compresses to KMZ really well. I was at first confused as to how these are supposed to work but there's plenty of doco around now.
Basically a KMZ is a ZIP archive with KML inside. See:
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_kmz.html
As an idea of how well this works, the nodes feed from our site is 89% smaller with KMZ (70634 bytes versus 624523 bytes uncompressed) which is a very nice saving.
#1
That'd be great to have. Similarly, I knew about them when writing the module, but didn't know much about them at the time.
#2
There's a thread at Google Earth Community (and another here) that looks like it would be useful.
Presumably the zipping should be done before putting it into the cache, to save having to re-zip things if they haven't changed?