Update:

Feedback from the map Czar, Doug.

"Below is the contents of the batch file with the wget. the italicized all caps words are things I took out to anonymize the information.

cd /users/NAME/documents/FOLDER

/Windows/GnuWin32/bin/wget http://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/kml?mid=FI
+LE ID --no-check-certificate

[download]

This saves it to the folder in the batch file with the name kml@mid=FILE ID.NUMBER Then all you have to do is rename it NAME.kmz and it works perfectly. there might be a better way with the file names but this works fine for our purpose. it only has to be renamed if I need to restore the map. so far it is churning away as planned. I appreciate the help. you probably have more time in finding this solution than I do in setting up the map."

Doug is running the .bat file hourly using Windows Scheduler. Thanks again to all that contributed.

Edit: Callsign removed by request.

James

There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

In reply to Re^2: Automating Backup of a Google Map by jmlynesjr
in thread Automating Backup of a Google Map by jmlynesjr

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