Uploading of Google Earth Placemarks?
07-24-2005, 08:53 PM
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Lomag,
Are you able to define what types of file extensions that can be uploaded to the site? If so, I thought it would be cool if you enabled the extension .kmz which is used by the Google Earth program as a "placemark" to a specific point on the earth. The files aren't big, they're just like shortcuts.
A Google Earth thread was started by Alex.br and he posted latitude and longitude coordinates to his house in Rio and it got me to thinking -- wouldn't it be fun if forum members could post links to places of interest around the world?
Personally, I wouldn't be linking directly to my house (even though you can see my white car in the driveway!) but I might post things like downtown Pittsburgh, my BMW dealership, etc.
It might be something to consider -- if it can't be done, I guess posting coordinates will work...
Are you able to define what types of file extensions that can be uploaded to the site? If so, I thought it would be cool if you enabled the extension .kmz which is used by the Google Earth program as a "placemark" to a specific point on the earth. The files aren't big, they're just like shortcuts.
A Google Earth thread was started by Alex.br and he posted latitude and longitude coordinates to his house in Rio and it got me to thinking -- wouldn't it be fun if forum members could post links to places of interest around the world?
Personally, I wouldn't be linking directly to my house (even though you can see my white car in the driveway!) but I might post things like downtown Pittsburgh, my BMW dealership, etc.
It might be something to consider -- if it can't be done, I guess posting coordinates will work...
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07-25-2005, 06:17 AM
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It can be done but I'm not sure we need this... like others have mentioned I read in another thread .. its fun for 15 minutes and thats the end of it. I was just playing around with it myself and my head hurts, heh.
07-25-2005, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Lomag' date='Jul 25 2005, 04:17 PM
I was just playing around with it myself and my head hurts, heh.
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I know that feeling...
07-25-2005, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by rodybmw' date='Jul 25 2005, 02:15 AM
Try flying to? 48?10'36.38"N,? 11?33'34.79"E...............Once you get there zoom in close, tilt down and fly around a bit.
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07-25-2005, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MEX' date='Jul 25 2005, 04:07 PM
[quote name='rodybmw' date='Jul 25 2005, 02:15 AM']Try flying to?? 48?10'36.38"N,? 11?33'34.79"E...............Once you get there zoom in close, tilt down and fly around a bit.
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[/quote]Here's a picture of the BMW four cylinder building and museum that I took from the top of the Olympic Tower. If you go to those coordinates again and go accross the street diagonally from the BMW building to the Olympic Park you can see the tower.
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