unzip strings in javascript

javascript google-maps zip kml unzip
Trident Splash picture Trident Splash · May 23, 2009 · Viewed 12k times · Source

Anyone knows a simple JavaScript library implementing the UNZIP algorithm? No disk-file access, only zip and unzip a string of values.

There are ActiveX, using WinZIP and other client dependent software for ZIP, written in JS. But no pure JavaScript algorithm implementation.

I would use it for displaying KMZ files in a HTML page with the GMap object (google maps). The KMZ file is just a zipped KML file. I want to unzip a KMZ file and feed the KML to GMap.

Answer

viam0Zah picture viam0Zah · May 24, 2009

No need to unzip the KMZ file as Google Maps absolutely understands it. You can check it, simply search for the URL where your KMZ file is located in the Google Maps web interface and it will show its content on the map.

Here is a demo.

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