KML File in Google Drive
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 18 years
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I've known that I can take the Current.gpx file from my Nuvi, convert to KML and display the waypoints and tracks in Google Earth by opening the file directly in the Google Earth application. After a trip driving around a place for the first time, it's been fun for me to view the routes I took (including missed turns!)
Anyway, doing the same in Google Maps in a web browser is a little more difficult because to display the KML file, one has to upload the KML file to a web server, so that there is a URL to it, and then enter the URL in the search box of Google Maps.
Does anyone know of a more direct way of overlaying a KML file onto Google Maps without having to upload the file separately to a web server?
By the way, I accidentally discovered that if you store a KML file in Google Drive, and you click on the file name, it opens up in a map viewer. That was cool. Then, I discovered under the File pulldown, there's an item "Embed this map". It generates HTML code that you can use to embed the map, similar to the way Video embed code can be generated using YouTube.
dropbox?
You may be able to do similar with Drive, I just never had great results with Drive. But if you put any file in the public folder of Dropbox and then right click on it, one of the options that you will be given is to copy a public URL. Effectively, anything that you put in that folder will have a url, but it is only public for the people who have the url. "Uploading" it becomes as simple as dropping it in your local dropbox folder (and waiting a few seconds).
If you want to try this and are willing to give me the credit for referring you, drop me your email through this site's private message feature. (Dropbox has a "sell out your friends for additional storage space" feature.) I'll pass it to them and they'll send you an invite. If you don't trust them (or me) with your email, just go to spamgourmet.com and create a disposable address that you can give me and them.