title: KML - hide name in label
body: <p>I have tried very hard to give a Placemark a name yet not have it show up next to Placemark on the map. When you go to the left-hand side in Google Maps, all of the Placemarks in the list say <code>[no name]</code>. So, is there a way to get rid of the name (if I want to name the Placemarks and have that show up folder on the left)?</p>
  
  <p>My KML structure looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?&gt;
  &lt;kml xmlns=\"http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2\"&gt;
  &lt;Document&gt;
  &lt;name&gt;foo&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;Folder&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;bar&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;foo bar&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;Placemark&gt;
          &lt;Style&gt;
              &lt;LineStyle&gt;
                  &lt;color&gt;ffff0000&lt;/color&gt;
                  &lt;width&gt;2&lt;/width&gt;
              &lt;/LineStyle&gt;
          &lt;/Style&gt;
          &lt;name&gt;&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;LineString&gt;
              &lt;coordinates&gt;{},{},{},{},{},{}&lt;/coordinates&gt;
          &lt;/LineString&gt;
      &lt;/Placemark&gt;
      &lt;Placemark&gt;
          &lt;Style&gt;
              &lt;IconStyle&gt;
                  &lt;Icon&gt;&lt;href&gt;file://{11}arrow.png &lt;/href&gt;&lt;/Icon&gt;
                  &lt;heading&gt;{4}&lt;/heading&gt;
                  &lt;color&gt;{10}&lt;/color&gt;
                  &lt;scale&gt;.6&lt;/scale&gt;
              &lt;/IconStyle&gt;
          &lt;/Style&gt;
          &lt;name&gt;&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;scale&gt;0&lt;/scale&gt;
          &lt;color&gt;{10}&lt;/color&gt;
          &lt;description&gt;{9}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;duration:&lt;/b&gt; {8}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;time:&lt;/b&gt; {7}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;CNR:&lt;/b&gt; {5}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;BER:&lt;/b&gt; {6}&lt;/description&gt;
          &lt;Point&gt;&lt;coordinates&gt;{0},{1},{2}&lt;/coordinates&gt;&lt;/Point&gt;
      &lt;/Placemark&gt;
  
      &lt;Placemark&gt;
          &lt;Style&gt;
              &lt;LineStyle&gt;
                  &lt;color&gt;ffff0000&lt;/color&gt;
                  &lt;width&gt;2&lt;/width&gt;
              &lt;/LineStyle&gt;
          &lt;/Style&gt;
          &lt;name&gt;&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;LineString&gt;
              &lt;coordinates&gt;{},{},{},{},{},{}&lt;/coordinates&gt;
          &lt;/LineString&gt;
      &lt;/Placemark&gt;
      &lt;Placemark&gt;
          &lt;Style&gt;
              &lt;IconStyle&gt;
                  &lt;Icon&gt;&lt;href&gt;file://{11}arrow.png &lt;/href&gt;&lt;/Icon&gt;
                  &lt;heading&gt;{4}&lt;/heading&gt;
                  &lt;color&gt;{10}&lt;/color&gt;
                  &lt;scale&gt;.6&lt;/scale&gt;
              &lt;/IconStyle&gt;
          &lt;/Style&gt;
          &lt;name&gt;&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;scale&gt;0&lt;/scale&gt;
          &lt;color&gt;{10}&lt;/color&gt;
          &lt;description&gt;{9}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;duration:&lt;/b&gt; {8}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;time:&lt;/b&gt; {7}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;CNR:&lt;/b&gt; {5}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;BER:&lt;/b&gt; {6}&lt;/description&gt;
          &lt;Point&gt;&lt;coordinates&gt;{0},{1},{2}&lt;/coordinates&gt;&lt;/Point&gt;
      &lt;/Placemark&gt;
      ...repeat &lt;Placemark&gt;&lt;LineString&gt;&lt;/LineString&gt;&lt;/Placemark&gt;&lt;Placemark&gt;&lt;/Placemark&gt;...
  &lt;/Folder&gt;&lt;/Document&gt;
  &lt;/kml&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>You can see that the name after the style block is empty because I really don't want it to show up next to the Placemark. (Quick note: the brackets are from a python script that writes to a file, so just ignore the brackets.)</p>
  
  <p>If I do put something inside <code>&lt;name&lt;/name&gt;</code> (inside of the "normal" Placemark not inside the <code>LineString</code>) how do I make it not show up next to the Placemarks?</p>