Where would I need to host an xml file in order to use it in Google maps for GEORss ??
From google api docs... var georssLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?g=322338@N20&lang=en-us&format=feed-georss'); georssLayer.setMap(map);
this seems to do a great job of creating the info popouts and everything...
It would seem i cannot have one locally...
So i guess i need an aspx or ashx to push the xml...but does it have to be web accessible?
Thx
Yes, it needs to be web accessible because Google converts the GeoRSS to KML on the server side:
"The Google Maps API supports the KML and GeoRSS data formats for displaying geographic information. These data formats are displayed on a map using a KmlLayer object, whose constructor takes the URL of a publicly accessible KML or GeoRSS file.
The Maps API converts the provided geographic XML data into a KML representation which is displayed on the map using a V3 tile overlay."
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#KMLLayers
If you are hosting a static XML file, you might use Amazon Web Service's Simple Storage Service: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/