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KML for Interstate Highway System

I cleaned up the topology of the NHPN data a bit and uploaded a KML file for the entire IHS (view on the Goog). For several reasons I'm not linking to it in the article:

• I didn't do much geometry cleanup from the NHPN data, so some Interstates are horribly imprecise (e.g. I-72 west of Jacksonville, IL; I-795 in NC, I-10 at TX exit 294).
• There are no objective standards for which future Interstates (suffixed F) I included. I may have also gotten the status of a few recent additions wrong.
• Curves are a bit too simplified in areas (due to Misplaced Pages size constraints).
• There's also a problem with multipart lines, which doesn't affect display, but creates annoying effects when editing.

However, it is good enough for small-scale mapping (for which you'd probably want to filter out all future routes). --NE2 02:03, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Help with KML files/broken tool?

I'm trying to create KML maps for roads in Prince Edward Island since as far as I can tell only one road is mapped, but I can't seem to get my KML format to render properly. I tried following the tutorial here and I have successfully created files that render in Google Maps (not through wmflabs) and Google Earth, but they do not render properly through the {{Attached KML}} template. The one road I'm mostly working on at the moment is Prince Edward Island Route 2. After I've formatted my KML file and pasted into the attachment template I can click on the links in the article, but with Google I get gibberish (a small block centered somewhere in the Caribbean with lines everywhere) and with Bing I get nothing at all, just a plain map centered on my location with no route lines on it.

After I went through a few rounds of trying different settings from Google Earth I gave up and just copied a KML that seems to be working, first from U.S. Route 50 then from Ontario Highway 401, and pasted the coordinates from my KML into that file, but that doesn't work either. I also noticed while testing that even those working files don't render in Bing, so maybe that tool is just broken?

Anyway, wondering if one of you experts can have a look at what I've been up to and suggest something that I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Ivanvector (/_Edits) 18:23, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Looks like the rendering tool is broken at the moment. Try this with articles with existing KMLs, e.g., New York State Route 79, and you get the same result. Note that in-article rendering works just fine (remove |display=title,inline) as in NY 79 article. Anyway, I would wait until this is resolved before adding any more KML. Chinissai (talk) 19:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

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