Hey so I copied the way you have your json file set up and I'm getting an error that it's not proper json. this is how I have mine set up:
{ "markers": [ { "name": "Canada", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada", "lat": 56.130366, "lng": -106.346771 }, { "name": "Anguilla", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla", "lat": 18.220554, "lng": -63.068615 }, { "name": "Barbados", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados", "lat": 13.193887, "lng": -59.543198 }, { "name": "United States", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States", "lat": 37.090240, "lng": -95.712891 }, { "name": "Ireland", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland", "lat": 53.412910, "lng": -8.243890 }, { "name": "Scotland", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland", "lat": 56.490671, "lng": -4.202646 }, { "name": "England", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England", "lat": 52.355518, "lng": -1.174320 }, { "name": "France", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France", "lat": 46.227638, "lng": 2.213749 }, { "name": "The Netherlands", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands", "lat": 52.132633, "lng": 5.291266 }, { "name": "Switzerland", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland", "lat": 46.818188, "lng": 8.227512 }, { "name": "South Africa", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa", "lat": -30.559482, "lng": 22.937506 }, { "name": "Madagascar", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar", "lat": -18.766947, "lng": 46.869107 }, { "name": "Taiwan", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan", "lat": 23.697810, "lng": 120.960515 }, { "name": "Japan", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan", "lat": 36.204824, "lng": 138.252924 } ]}
Any reason why the js file is unable to read my json?