android-mapview

I was wondering how to load an already created kml file into the mapview programatically? The kml file is stored in the SDcard. I have a mapActivity already set up. Do I just SAX parse the kml file and use the draw method to create the boundary? Here is a snippet of the kml file stored on the phone <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com /kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org /2005/Atom"> <Document> <name>TY09-46.kml</name> <open>1</open> <Style id="sn_ylw-pushpin594">

I'm using locationManager and ItemizedOverlay to draw My Location marker, the problem is when onLocationChanged is triggered I'm getting new marker drawed and not the last one moved to the new location, here is my onLocationChanged code : public void onLocationChanged(Location location) { myOverlay object1 = new myOverlay(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.arrow),MyMap); if(location!=null){ MyMap.invalidate(); GeoPoint MyPos = new GeoPoint(microdegrees(location.getLatitude()),microdegrees(location.getLongitude())); MyController.animateTo(MyPos); object1.addPoint(MyPos,"Ma position","Ma

I am writing a application that needs to draw a "route" comprised of lots of GPS points (long+lat). The points are close together and don't follow roads, simply drawing a line between each point is ideal. The current implementation I have is very slow as I am looping over all the GPS coordinates and creating a new Point and overlayitem in an itemized overlay. This takes around 20 seconds for it to load all of these points and draw them to the mapview. Is there a way in which I can construct a series of lines or point from the GPS coordinates and draw them onto the mapview? Example of current

while the map is in loading state i want to put a progressbar at the center of mapview. how to get the progress?? and how to do?? give me some example.. thanks. I don't think there is any reasonable way of doing it. Note that Google isn't doing this either in their map applications. It is pretty clear just looking at the page to see if tiles are still loading, so I don't think there is actually any need to put in a progress indicator. The MapView has a method canCoverCenter() which can tell you if the center tile is available, but there is nothing for the rest of the tiles. Take a look at