Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

"Mardon" <mgb72mgb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Roger Donne" <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> My attempts at representing information from an 18th century estate
>> map on modern satellite images from Google Earth is shown at
>> http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/godolphinmanor.htm.
The area represented
>> is in the parish of Crowan in Cornwall, UK.
>>
>> Regards: Roger Donne
>
> Thanks for your example, Roger.  Static jpeg images, customized with
> overlays, is pretty much the way that I've been going up to now also. It
> works well but I've become interested in moving beyond that and using
KML
> to integrate my data with a geographic browser like Google Earth.  I
think
> that doing so will help provide people with a better sense of location
and
> scale.  Being able to zoom in and out and 'fly around' the area of 
> interest
> seems to give a better feel for the geography.

Did you find the embedded KMZ link in the webpage? 
http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/Kerthen.kmz.
The static images are just there for those who can't or don't want to 
install Google Earth.
Regards: Roger Donne