Ad-hoc kml/kmz as layer to SMART mobile

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Hi Justin,
Please check why this KMZ is not displaying properly as offline map.
Thanks!
Josip
Traps_Sarikamis_2003.zip (5.7 KB)

22

SMART Mobile does not support KMZ, only KML. I renamed the KMZ file to a ZIP file and it worked. I would recommend adding your own “layers.json” into the ZIP, otherwise it will think that the PNG symbols are layers.

Cheers,
-Justin

23

Well, sorry Justin, but it did not work. I do not know how to add my own “layer.json”. When I open the same file in some other mobile app, it displays as expected. I also tried the same points in shp format (the whole family of files packed in one zip), but this did not work as well. here is this zip.
Traps_Sarikamis_2023.zip (3.5 KB)

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Hi Josip,

Here is what I did:

  1. Rename traps.kmz to traps.zip
  2. Unzipped to a folder
  3. Added layers.json
  4. Created a new zip: traps.zip

Here is a link to the documentation again:
Offline maps

Cheers,
-Justin

25

it worked this way, but only after deleting one file (*.xsl) which was inside kmz (zip).
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So, after all, it is not really “ad-hoc” since it needs four steps, plus one undocumented (deleting *.xsl), at least when working with kml/kmz.
Thanks Justin!