Is there any way to create a KML overlay in Google Maps by passing the KML as a string rather than as a publicly accessible URL? AFAICT there is no such option in the Google Maps API v3. I am not asking about the API but about possible end runs around this limitation.
Personally I can think of only one: to parse the KML and generate equivalent JS. Does anyone have a better suggestion?
I've tried too but i haven't found a way to do this.
The reason is explained here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6152916/2131283
For the tests my work around was sharing the kml file on my dropbox then give the direct access url with the token to the constructor
kmlLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer
url: 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/eg/gmaps.kmltoken_hash=HASH_CODE&dl=1'
geoxml3 has a parseKmlString method, which will parse a string of kml and can create native google maps API v3 objects from it. I have used it to parse kml fragments out of FusionTables.
