KMZ Upload Problem - Cannot parse latitude, longitude...

[pmolsen]

Does anyone know what the following error message means when trying to upload a KMZ file to the 3D Warehouse please:

"3D Warehouse is unable to load this file. Cannot parse latitude, longitude, or reference to model file."

It is a large KML animation (1300 lines of code) with 14 embedded models and one MP3 file. It runs perfectly from my PC. I tried a smaller version of it, with the same result.

[Aerilius]

I think 3D Warehouse requires that kmz models have a geo coordinates, and they probably use a script to extract it. Maybe it hasn't been designed for files other than those produced by SketchUp or most programs. Maybe the data structure (<document>, <folder>) is different than expected (though still valid)?

As a side note, 3D Warehouse didn't allow mp3 files last time I tried (I had to save it on a web url). But I don't think that causes the above message…

[pmolsen]

It was because I was using encoding of ISO-8859 on the first line of the KML instead of UTF-8. That was because it had accented Spanish characters. I converted those to non accented using http://textmechanic.com/Remove-Letter-Accents.html and changed it to UTF-8 and it then uploaded fine.

Well, I also had an MP3 file embedded which it rejected so I also had to delete that unfortunately.

I managed to upload the first of the two files:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=449581d889e325c4dfd89dd71a555b12
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SzOneaSMF4

The second one, which is much more detailed, keeps failing with a server error message "The server encountered an error and could not complete your request". It is 5.3Mb in size. Is there a size limit on them of less than 5Mb perhaps? According to Sketchup Guide Allison on this post https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/3dwh/iW_qyvpuL-U (near the bottom) it should accept kmz files up to 10Mb.

[pmolsen]

Found the problem after 3 hours of searching. It was one single filename with part of the name "delfin" but the "i" was accented instead of a dot. It was in the jpg file name plus in the doc.kml file that referenced it. Methinks (Trimble) need to fix their meaningless message so people have some idea what the problem is.

The big problem is I was first getting an error message relating to latitude and longitude. The message then changed but the problem remained the same, which is is confusing to say the least.

The finished version is here:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=cf8544f0c3074395dfd89dd71a555b12