Recently a question was raised on the GE boards about how to use a dynamic URL to goto to a specific placemark within a KMZ when you load your GE enabled site.
While there are alternatives to doing that - like giving the user options to click within your site - going to a (changeable) default location on load can be useful.
Here’s an example of how to do it. Read More
The Google Earth Plugin allows you to embed Google Earth within a browser. At present this is only available on the Windows platform but has been promised for some time on the MAC and Linux ones - and is eagerly awaited.
To that end this post will only be viewable on Windows and only if you have the plugin installed.
The plugin can be downloaded from http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/googleearth.html
This is also a test to show one way of embedding GE within Wordpress and in this case uses an iframe tag to embed a separate page. The code I’m using for this example is:-
<iframe scrolling="no" style="border:0;padding:0;margin:10px 0 10px 0;" src="http://www.TheKMZ.co.uk/GEPlugin/gepi_test_1.htm" width="500" height="600"></iframe>
If you save a KML from within Google Earth the Styles that you have used, Placemark icons for example, are included in the KML. While this works for simple KMLs it’s not ideal for more complex ones.
A better way to store and reference Styles, especially if you generate them from a source such as a database or have multiple Network Links within your files, is to use an separate KML that is used purely for your styles - no Placemarks or other Features - just Styles.
When creating KML files when is it correct to use the compressed format of KMZ and when should you just leave them umcompressed?
There are advantages to both formats and the line between them can be gray in places but there are some instances in which you have no choice but to use a KMZ. Read More
Network Links can be used in many ways, delivery of dynamic data for example, but the most basic is in the form of a wrapper so that you can change your main data file(s) while not requiring your subscribers to do anything except refresh the link thay have saved.