KML placemark inline IconStyle overwrites IconStyle from styleUrl

Styling placemarks in KML files can easily done using style IDs. When inserting placemarks in the KML file, these IDs can be referenced usind the styleURL tag. This works pretty fine! But for some icons (e.g. arrows) it can be necessary to also set a heading information! This can not be done in the predefined styles as this changes for each placemark. Therefore it is required to have an inline Style tag that only containes the heading tag for this icon. Unfortunately it is not appending this information to the merged information from the style ID. It seems to overwrite the whole IconStyle information from the style IDs. At least it displays the default hotSpot icon from Google (yellow pin) using the heading information from the inline IconStyle.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Extract demo.zip to have a minimal example.
2. Load the contained KML into online Google Earth to see how it should look like.
3. Now use the same KML and display it as overlay using openlayers.

Expected behavior The inline IconStyle options should only overwrite the options specified in the IconStyle of the referenced style ID instead of replacing the whole IconStyle.

[stoecker]

If you want this issue to be fixed, you should to get in touch with a company that provides support for OpenLayers. Some of them are listed on https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/.

As far that I know, all of the core developers are maintaining the library on their free time.

I hope you don’t use any of the many software products I develop or package in my free time.

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