Loading KML

[wz2b]

I am having trouble loading KML. I'm surprised, because from the docs it looks like it should be really simple. My init looks like this:

var map = new esri.Map('map')

var basemap = new esri.layers.ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer("http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer");
map.addLayer(basemap);

var kmlUrl = 'https://myserver.something.com/maptest/status.kml';
var kml = new esri.layers.KMLLayer(kmlUrl);
map.addLayer(kml);

What I notice is that it doesn't ever hit my server to retrieve the kml file.

Do I need to somehow trigger a refresh so that it loads the kml? Or is what I did above enough?

--Chris

[swingley]

Is your KML file publicly accessible?

[rsiebenmann]

Is your KML file publicly accessible?

This is the second thread where I have read that the KML file needs to be publicly available. I find it very frustrating that this is not explicitly mentioned in the documentation. For example,

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/jav...kmlbuffer.html

and

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/jav...ayers_kml.html

Should probably be modified to mention this very important piece of information!

[Kelly]

Hi Raphael,

We do mention that the KML layer needs to be publicly accessible in the API reference (see the first paragraph):

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/jav...i/kmllayer.htm

But I agree that we should probably add this info to the sample descriptions too. We'll work on getting this info added to the sample descriptions for a future release.