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Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files [message #82093 is a reply to message #81876]

Wed, 14 November 2012 07:45

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Sverre Solberg writes:

> This will be a very valuable tool if it works out. However, I have a
> basic question about this. How do you import the data into Google
> Earth? Well, from the description I see that I should just use
> 'open file' and then import the klm file. But that doesnt work
> for me. I'm confused about the two files (klm and png). Are
> the klm file referring to the png in some way?

The klm and png file will need to be in the same directory
when you open the KLM file in Goggle Earth. Yes, the KLM
file is referring to the PNG file.

> It just displays the area with a red frame and a cross inside.

Yes, this is what happens when the image file can't be found.

> I have imported other klm files into Google E. and that works
> perfectly ok with just one file, no additional jpg/png etc.
> I'm probably missing some very basic stuff here ...

You probably opened a KMZ file. This is a zip file containing
the klm file and any other files the KLM file references. I
plan to add the ability to create KMZ files soon, but I
haven't figured out how to access the zip functionality
in a general way on different machines yet.

Cheers,

David
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		Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: David Fanning on Tue, 30 October 2012 15:36
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 November 2012 05:50
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: Sverre Solberg on Wed, 14 November 2012 07:35
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: d.poreh on Thu, 08 November 2012 01:04
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: David Fanning on Wed, 07 November 2012 21:16
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 07 November 2012 20:06
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 November 2012 15:02
		Re: Image Overlays on Google Earth with KML Files By: David Fanning on Wed, 14 November 2012 07:45

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