Yes You Can Import KML into Bing Maps, But How?
I found a blogger guy who was having trouble importing KML data into Google Maps (via).
He reports:
Unfortunately, it isn't the smoothest road trying to import KML from Google Maps into Bing Maps, and I’m looking to find a support community that can help me through this.
The first hurdle is that you can’t develop on KML using just your own box. I.e., you can’t host the KML file on your local web server or an internally-located dev server. In order make KML overlays work in Bing Maps, the KML file has to be on an internet-accessible machine. This is due to the fact that the sequence works like this – if you want to display a file like “myoverlays.kml” on your map:
Seems the main problem at this stage was overcoming the 200 point limits on Bing
You can read the rest of his successes and failures on his blog post here.
Then afterwards another member of said forum reported the answer could be found here.
Can anyone shed some more light on this subject?
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The best (and to my knowledge, the only) way to import a KML file to Bing is by using Internet Explorer.
In fact, I've tried it using Firefox and Chrome and with little success. You can however use the IE tab extension in Chrome and IEtab in Firefox to perform the KML import to a Bing Map Look below for the bing map version of the Land Surveyors United member map, which i created by importing the KML i generated using Team Maps from Map Channels.