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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)
@Evad37: –Fredddie™ 04:01, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll take your word for it, but when I go to Template:Attached KML/New York State Route 79 and open the editor, the google maps link that comes up displays a proper map for me, but that same link doesn't work for my map. Is it a matter of that map having not been updated recently (Sept 2013) and living in a cache or something? Not that I could troubleshoot myself anyway, just curious. I'll keep prepping my KML files for upload but I'll hold off until someone lets me know the tool is working. Cheers. Ivanvector (/Edits) 11:37, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
I would note that correct rendering is intermittent at best, depending on the browser and even how the rendering page is loaded, as mentioned in Template talk:Attached KML#Google Maps problems. Bing Maps doesn't appear to work now either, across the board. Chinissai (talk) 12:54, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
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