This is just a reminder to everyone to help spread the news about Where on Google Earth. If you know friends who’d like to play, or frequent any forums where you think there might be interested people, let them know.
Also, I’m personally looking for help on my own Google Earth layer. In particular, I’m trying to figure out how I can easily format pins I’m using on my map. Most of the layers I have use nice looking layouts, and I haven’t figured out how to make a similar layout appear for each pin.
In addition, I think it would be cool to have a Where On Google Earth layer for Google Earth (only appropriate, isn’t it?) It would just be all the contest locations with one or two new pins added every week. If anyone would be interested in putting it together, I’ll gladly host it and put up a link.
What are you trying to do with the pins? You can use a directive like this one to plop a referenced icon graphic on a spot. This gives a tall pushpin over the point, and makes it open so you can see them all as a set.
Let me know if this answered your question.
MyPoint
1
123 Anystreet, Anytown, NE 12345 USA
-80.00000
42.00000
1300
30
0
root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x304+hicon=0x314
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png
1
relativeToGround
-80.00000,42.00000,500
Rats. Needed to quote that code.
Let me try this again, trying to quote the code…
MyPoint
1
Anytown USA
Other interesting data here
123 Anystreet, Anytown, NE, 12345 USA
–80.000
42.0000
1300
30
0
root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x304+hicon=0x314
0.77
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32×32.png
1
relativeToGround
-80.00000,42.00000,500
That didn’t work like I planned. You can fetch the code here.
http://www.houseofcats.org/andy/sample-ge-placemark.kml
-Andy