KML Placemark/Point Meta Data Not Displaying Correctly

[martinhannigan]

Describe the bug
When clicking on pin for KML meta data? Some display, and some have truncated data.

To Reproduce

1. Go to KML data which reflects https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/3484 Crown Castle Boston
2. Click the yellow pin for Crown Castle
3. Metadata is truncated after Comment
4. Click the pin for Databank which is next to it
5. Meta data completes accurately

To easily fly to the bad pin, use the GE app to go to 1 Summer, Boston, MA

This is happening to more than a few placemarks. Or points. I thought I saw some inconsistency in the KML but the file was too big to easily diff the bad vs. good. HTH.

Expected behavior

Meta data display entirely when requested

Who is affected by the problem?

Users of the KMZ file

What is the impact?

Incomplete data

Are there security concerns?

No.

Are there privacy concerns?

No.

What are the proposed actions?

Evaluate, repair.

What is the proposed priority?

Not urgent

Provide a rationale for any/all of the above

Accuracy, consistency.

Additional context

Considered adding to enhancements list, but this bug has a different class so I didn't.

[martinhannigan]

Additional debugging.

After more probing it appears conclusive that something is breaking in the markup related to comment.

Crown marked "all" their records with the comment "Previously Lightower" and none work

NTT FRA 2 has comments, truncated meta data
Digital Realty CHI (2299 Busse Road) has comments, truncated meta data
Databank facilities have no comments, all show meta data correctly
Equinix has commented records, they truncate after comments.

Seems like a pattern.

[leovegoda]

I see this. Also, when I look at https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/3152 I just see the comment but not the rest of the entry.

[grizz]

+1 this should be checked out.

[mcmanuss8]

+1 we should fix this

[AjSteller]

Thanks Martin for linking, I had missed this one when checking issues for duplicate before submitting, my apologies.

As noted in #1501, I was able to confirm that the notes being added as the "Description" are hiding the rest of the meta data. Verified this by manually deleting the notes text from the Description in Google Earth and the meta data shows up properly. Can do the same in reverse and go to properties of a placemark and add any text in the Description, once you do that you can't see any of the other meta data, only the text in the description.

Seems that the solution is likely to just not export the Notes field in to the Description since the Notes are also in the regular meta data table and shows up there.

Thanks all!

[martinhannigan]

Anthony, yep. Confirmed. I couldn't figure out why removing the notes had an impact, but I think 20c did. The notes are valuable IMHO. Not critical of peeringDB, but they've enabled work-around to deficiencies. They're also good to monitor to see where PDB can make improvements (such as #1131) since if you have to put it in notes to get attention and more than a few are doing it perhaps there's an enhancement to be made. Even if Lumen did tag you in PDB, that doesn't tell the real story of Lumen (Qwest, Level(3), Centurylink, $acquisition). A lot of people still think in terms of footprint. And because of how messy long haul provisioning is the extra information can be useful to guide provisioning while they try and find everything. Example attached. The other great thing about notes is it supports markdown language so you can make it "look" nice in the record. Hope it's not too difficult of a fix!

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[grizz]

Will be fixed with #1489