Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

In article <Xns9A43B2D0161AEmgb72mgbhotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mardon <mgb72mgb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm in the process of creating a KML file to identify all of my important
family history locations. For people not familiar with KML, it's Keyhole
Markup Language, something akin to HTML or XML but it's used in conjunction
with geographic browsers like Google Earth.

My plan is to start with only Placemarks but add images later on. Has
anyone done this? I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone who has
shared their KML file(s) publicly as I plan to do. A URL for such a file
would be great. I'd love to take a look at what others have already done
along these lines.

I haven't shared them yet, but have set up some placemarks and a
couple of images. Still debating some software issues (as in
how much will I write myself) because I'd as soon have this sort
of KML generation sorted out by the geneaology software.

The drawback (imho) with a Google Earth presentation is that it uses
the worst possible projection -- satellite view. In order to see my
North American relatives (only, and we're mostly, it seems, a bunch of
central and eastern I-80 folks) I have to pull the image viewpoint back
to at least 1200 km. I do earth remote sensing with a satellite, and
it's only 700 km up. When you're back far enough to see the group,
you're much too far back to see any details (at least state names, perhaps
national names are gone too).

I haven't experimented much with it. Perhaps someone knows how to
make Google Earth use a more reasonable projection, like Lambert Conformal.

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