Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

Wasn't it Mardon who 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.

I use XML rather than KML so that I can filter the information as 
required, for example to just display the locations where one individual 
lived. Like this:

http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/family/imap.htm?indi=121

The location information for all individuals is in a single XML file. 
imap.htm reads the corresponding entries in that file, displays the 
information, and centres and zooms the map so that all the locations for 
that individual are in view.

My main family tree website calls that map in an <iframe>, like this:

http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/family/ind121.html

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure