In article <Xns9A43B2D0161AEmgb72mgbhotmailcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mardon <mgb72mgb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I'm in the process of creating a KML file to identify all of my im****tant
>family history locations. For people not familiar with KML, it's Keyhole
>Markup Language, something akin to HTML or XML but it's used in
conjunction
>with geographic browsers like Google Earth.
>
>My plan is to start with only Placemarks but add images later on. Has
>anyone done this? I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone who
has
>shared their KML file(s) publicly as I plan to do. A URL for such a file
>would be great. I'd love to take a look at what others have already done
>along these lines.
I haven't shared them yet, but have set up some placemarks and a
couple of images. Still debating some software issues (as in
how much will I write myself) because I'd as soon have this sort
of KML generation sorted out by the geneaology software.
The drawback (imho) with a Google Earth presentation is that it uses
the worst possible projection -- satellite view. In order to see my
North American relatives (only, and we're mostly, it seems, a bunch of
central and eastern I-80 folks) I have to pull the image viewpoint back
to at least 1200 km. I do earth remote sensing with a satellite, and
it's only 700 km up. When you're back far enough to see the group,
you're much too far back to see any details (at least state names, perhaps
national names are gone too).
I haven't experimented much with it. Perhaps someone knows how to
make Google Earth use a more reasonable projection, like Lambert
Conformal.
--
Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/
Science faqs and amateur
activities notes and links.
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too
much
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than
they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New
Sciences
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