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Our web app includes simple mapping capabilities (currently just markers and KML overlays on an embedded Google Map). This works pretty well; the only real limitation we face is KML overlays that go beyond Google's size & complexity restrictions for KMLsize & complexity restrictions for KML.

We're considering standing up our own server (e.g. GeoServer or ArcGIS Server); but that seems like a huge step just to serve up (for example) 15 MB of KML when Google's limit is 10 MB.

I need a sanity check: Is there some middle ground between Google's free and easy API for KML overlays, and setting up my own tile server?

Our web app includes simple mapping capabilities (currently just markers and KML overlays on an embedded Google Map). This works pretty well; the only real limitation we face is KML overlays that go beyond Google's size & complexity restrictions for KML.

We're considering standing up our own server (e.g. GeoServer or ArcGIS Server); but that seems like a huge step just to serve up (for example) 15 MB of KML when Google's limit is 10 MB.

I need a sanity check: Is there some middle ground between Google's free and easy API for KML overlays, and setting up my own tile server?

Our web app includes simple mapping capabilities (currently just markers and KML overlays on an embedded Google Map). This works pretty well; the only real limitation we face is KML overlays that go beyond Google's size & complexity restrictions for KML.

We're considering standing up our own server (e.g. GeoServer or ArcGIS Server); but that seems like a huge step just to serve up (for example) 15 MB of KML when Google's limit is 10 MB.

I need a sanity check: Is there some middle ground between Google's free and easy API for KML overlays, and setting up my own tile server?

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Herb Caudill
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What's next if our KML is too big/complex for the Google Maps API?

Our web app includes simple mapping capabilities (currently just markers and KML overlays on an embedded Google Map). This works pretty well; the only real limitation we face is KML overlays that go beyond Google's size & complexity restrictions for KML.

We're considering standing up our own server (e.g. GeoServer or ArcGIS Server); but that seems like a huge step just to serve up (for example) 15 MB of KML when Google's limit is 10 MB.

I need a sanity check: Is there some middle ground between Google's free and easy API for KML overlays, and setting up my own tile server?