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Friday, January 30, 2009

KML Kickstart - Placing Google Earth Links on your Website

Google Earth is a wonderful program for presenting geographic locations to your site visitors. The Google Earth's KML feature is the key. Your website can put a simple link where users can click and jump to a 3D VR Experience. It may be the location of your interest or any existing place from Goggle Earth's Community Place-marks.

1) Open Google Earth




2) Click on Add Place Mark tool




3) Locate and Create a New Placemark



4) Copy your place mark on clipboard





5) Fire up Notepad

6) Paste by Ctrl+V or Menu>>Edit>>Paste



7) Then save as a kml file e.g myplace.kml (Save as type 'All Files')




8) Upload the kml file to your file provider using your file upload procedures

e.g. you may upload your file myplace.kml on geocities on ‘mywebsite’


9) Now you can use this to html to link directly

http://www.geocities.com/yourwebsite/myplace.kml

Example

check these functional link posted on site


Auto Store Location Sample posted on http://jb683.blogspot.com

NOTE: Please Ensure google earth is installed on client computers with KML files associated with GoogleEarth, If your browser prompts use OpenWith ... GoogleEarth

What is your Favorite GoogleEarth Location? leave a comment for a kml request

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