Title: [Plugin: XML Google Maps] my issues with this plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: XML Google Maps] my issues with this plugin

 *  [ecologist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecologist/)
 * (@ecologist)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-xml-google-maps-my-issues-with-this-plugin/)
 * I’ve been using this plugin for a few months and have found some issues with 
   it that convinced me to go elsewhere. I’m currently using Gmap4 (it’s not a plugin,
   but it still lets me host my GPS files myself and post dynamic maps on my site).
 * The biggest issue was with the file size limitation. That limitation is pretty
   serious. I had a short hike with a half dozen geotagged photos. I could get it
   to display using the second parsing method, but I really don’t want giant databases.
   I disabled that shortly. It doesn’t take much for the first parsing method to
   crap out due to memory issues. For awhile, I settled on hosting the larger files
   on Garmin Connect or Trimble Outdoors or some other site that offers an iframe
   embedding option for those maps.
 * Then, I finally sat down to figure out why on earth my RSS feeds weren’t working.
   The feeds would not validate in ANY feed validator. I eventually disabled ALL
   of my website plugins and then re-enabled them one by one to figure out which
   one wrecked my RSS feed. Turns out, this plugin was the last on the list, and
   it was also the one that created the problems. To be sure, I repeated the disable/
   enable process, and it absolutely was the problem.
 * It’s too bad. It’s a nice plugin, and I like the graphs it provides for .gpx 
   files. But the fact that it messed up my RSS feeds was a deal breaker.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-google-maps/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-google-maps/)

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 *  [dschuesae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dschuesae/)
 * (@dschuesae)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-xml-google-maps-my-issues-with-this-plugin/#post-1477738)
 * Just wondering about this issue. It can’t be reproduced on my installation, everything
   is fine and in rss feed there is not map. Perhaps some issue in combination with
   another plugin?
 *  [steel67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steel67/)
 * (@steel67)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-xml-google-maps-my-issues-with-this-plugin/#post-1477806)
 * I have exactly the same problem and it’s realy embarassing…
    When turn on the
   plugin RSS feed returns timeout
 *  [steel67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steel67/)
 * (@steel67)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-xml-google-maps-my-issues-with-this-plugin/#post-1477807)
 * I solved the problem using the XML Google Maps cache setting and enable it.

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