Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

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> "Roger Donne" <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Mardon" <mgb72mgb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Roger Donne" <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> 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
>
> Shame on me!  I did NOT see your KMZ link the first time.
>
> That's really cool. I like the idea of the polygons to denote land
> owner****p.  I think I'll adopt that idea for a few cases when I know the
> boundaries of farms that were owned by my ancestors.  I also agree that
> it's a good idea to offer the static image alternative.  Not everyone is
> going to want to install Google Earth and maybe that service won't even
> exist in the future.
>
> I think that missing your KMZ link may have taught me a lesson too.  I'm
> always embedding im****tant links in the middle of text and assuming that
> people will notice them.  After all, these links are obvious to me. 
When
> I loaded your page, I scanned down and immediately clicked on the big
> image.  I'd made the intuitive assumption that the KML/KMZ file would be
> linked to this image.  When I discovered that there was no link to that
> image, I scrolled further and found the links to your static images.  I
> never went back to see that I'd missed the KMZ link embedded in the
text.
> Maybe it would be helpful to link the KMZ URL to that image?  Just a
> thought.
>
> I also noticed that the green polygon for William Bartle does not fill
> completely.  It is very jagged.  All the others are fine.
>
> Thanks again for the information.
Thanks for the feedback.  I will make the link more intuitive.  The
William
Bartle polygon looks OK when I view it.  However, when sharing these files
with other people, we have come across some problems in getting the
polygons
to display properly.  If the 'altitude' property of the polygon is set to
zero, it appears to be 'sunk' below the surface.  Giving it a few metres
elevation (depending on local topography) brings it into view, but
sometimes
it is only partially visible.
Regards: Roger Donne