I am an environmental educator, and I work with many different schools. I share GPS data using KMZ files for Google Earth. I share new files (16-20) weekly to our community, and would like to host them on my Wix site ( https://amarshall477.wixsite.com/condorkids ).
Currently, Wix cannot host .kmz or .kml files as a media upload. As a government employee I cannot share out my google drive, otherwise I could host the files there and link them on my Wix page. I am open to hosting the files elsewhere and linking them in, but a direct download is preferable.
Thanks for the assistance,
Park Ranger Daniel Cook
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Hopper Mountain NWRC
Moving your post to Community Discussion as its not a Functionality Request.
You do not need to share your Google Drive publicly. You can simply follow the below steps to hide the actual URL of your file on your Google Drive but allow users to download it via a button click on your website.
1.) Turn on Link Sharing for the file and set it to ’ On - Public on the web’
2.) Get the shareable link of the file which will look like this https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Notice the id string after the keyword ?id= in the above URL. Save that
Doing the above will not redirect to your actual Google Drive File URL. The actual URL stays hidden and the page will download the file while staying on your Wix Site.
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I cannot share my google drive files publicly or directly with anyone outside my governmental department. If they do not have an account from one of our agencies, they can’t download any of my files.
Government always says, “safety first” even if it makes things more complicated! I’ll keep searching for a solution. Thanks again!