Lighthouses on Novaya Zemlya? by diane9247 - Simple Placemarks To view the examples in Google Earth, use the attachments to the actual posts in the Forums.Ģ020 Update: the following links to files do not work because the original Google Earth Community Forums have been discontinued but the information about working with KML files is still helpful. The displayed KML code does not include the complete contents of the example files. Following is a discussion of some examples of KML from the Google Earth Community Forums. Then extract all the files and look for the KML in the doc.kml file. To guarantee that the original KML will remain intact, download the KMZ file and change the filename extension from kmz to zip. In some cases, though, if the KMZ archive contains images or other locally-referenced files, this method will adjust some of the code based on the configuration of the local client machine. To edit a KMZ file, you can open it in Google Earth, right-click it in the Places Pane, choose Copy from the menu, and paste the contents into a text editor. Another place to become more expert with Google Earth is Google Earth Outreach's Learn Site. Follow this up with some experimentation by editing the file in the text editor, saving it, and reloading it again into Google Earth.Ī good place to learn more about KML and KMZ files is KML Tutorial. An effective means of learning about KML is to open existing KML files in Google Earth to find out how they function, and then to examine the content of these files in a text editor to investigate how that functionality was implemented.

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