Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

"Kerry Raymond" <kraymond@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

> Well, I haven't been doing it for my own family history, but we
> publish KMZ files (the compressed form of KML) to show the locations
> of cemeteries we've photographed. This is a small cemetery at
> Fassifern near Boonah, Queensland. 
> 
> http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Fassifern-Boonah/
> GoogleEarth.kmz 
> 
> In our case we don't embed photos into the KML itself (because we have
> many photos for each cemetery) but simply provide a bit of text
> commentary and a URL to the photos themselves.
> 
> Kerry

This is a really neat way of doing it too.  I had't thought about creating

a unique KMZ file for each location.  This would allow me to link location

references within my html files to the KMZ file for that location. A user 
click on the link would show the spot on Google Earth (providing of course

the user has associated the file extension KMZ/KML with Google Earth or 
another geographic browser.)   Thanks, Kerry.