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    copied!<p>The Google Maps JavaScript version 3 API <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#KMLLayers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">library documentation clearly explains</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>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 <strong><em>publicly accessible</em></strong> KML or GeoRSS file.</p> </blockquote> <p>There are even several Stack Overflow questions about how to load local data:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/3514785/61654">Loading a local .kml file using google maps?</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/3435566/61654">Google Maps kml files</a></li> </ul> <p>Some of the answers have pointed to third party libraries which can parse KML locally without the file needing to be public:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/geoxml3/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">geoxml3</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GeoXML</a></li> <li><a href="http://econym.org.uk/gmap/extensions.htm#EGeoXml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">EGeoXml</a></li> </ul> <p>And while these solutions are good if you have a need to keep your data private, I simply want to make development easier. When running locally I obviously cannot parse my KML and therefore lose functionality that I am trying to test. I've posted a single generic KML file on a publicly available site, but then have to have different development code to render one thing vs. something else when running for real.</p> <p>What are my options for local development to render what would be publicly available dynamically generated KML files?</p>
 

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