Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

The other trap for young players is in embedding images in KML/KMZs. You 
must provide the full URL for the image not just a local reference (as you

can when embedding an image on a HTML page). That is,

<img src="http://www.wherever.com/folder/folder/folder/photo.JPG">

As most photos from a digital camera are pretty large, you will probably 
want to scale the photo down a bit, e.g.

<img height = 200 width=300 
src="http://www.wherever.com/folder/folder/folder/photo.JPG">

Obviously fiddle with the height/width until you get the size (and ratio) 
you like the look of.

Although I have made KMLs by hand-editing them, creating KMZs inside
Google 
Earth is a lot easier and most of the functionality that I need is
available 
through the Google Earth interface, so I rarely do it any other way. What
a 
lot of people do not realise is that you can edit Google Mark placemarks
by 
right-clicking the item in your Places menu and then selecting Properties.

It used to be very obvious but in the later versions of Google Earth, they

changed the interface and it seems people find the current way less
obvious.

Kerry