"Mardon" <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9A44AD9C7C4DCmgb72mgbhotmailcom@194.177.96.78... > "Roger Donne" <roger@donne.free-online.co.uk> wrote: > >> My attempts at representing information from an 18th century estate >> map on modern satellite images from Google Earth is shown at >> http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/godolphinmanor.htm. The area represented >> is in the parish of Crowan in Cornwall, UK. >> >> Regards: Roger Donne > > Thanks for your example, Roger. Static jpeg images, customized with > overlays, is pretty much the way that I've been going up to now also. It > works well but I've become interested in moving beyond that and using KML > to integrate my data with a geographic browser like Google Earth. I think > that doing so will help provide people with a better sense of location and > scale. Being able to zoom in and out and 'fly around' the area of > interest > seems to give a better feel for the geography. Did you find the embedded KMZ link in the webpage? http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/Kerthen.kmz. The static images are just there for those who can't or don't want to install Google Earth. Regards: Roger Donne

"Roger Donne" <roger@donne.free-online.co.uk> wrote: > "Mardon" <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:Xns9A44AD9C7C4DCmgb72mgbhotmailcom@194.177.96.78... >> "Roger Donne" <roger@donne.free-online.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> My attempts at representing information from an 18th century estate >>> map on modern satellite images from Google Earth is shown at >>> http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/godolphinmanor.htm. The area >>> represented is in the parish of Crowan in Cornwall, UK. >>> >>> Regards: Roger Donne >> >> Thanks for your example, Roger. Static jpeg images, customized with >> overlays, is pretty much the way that I've been going up to now also. >> It works well but I've become interested in moving beyond that and >> using KML to integrate my data with a geographic browser like Google >> Earth. I think that doing so will help provide people with a better >> sense of location and scale. Being able to zoom in and out and 'fly >> around' the area of interest >> seems to give a better feel for the geography. > > Did you find the embedded KMZ link in the webpage? > http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/Kerthen.kmz. > The static images are just there for those who can't or don't want to > install Google Earth. > Regards: Roger Donne Shame on me! I did NOT see your KMZ link the first time. That's really cool. I like the idea of the polygons to denote land ownership. I think I'll adopt that idea for a few cases when I know the boundaries of farms that were owned by my ancestors. I also agree that it's a good idea to offer the static image alternative. Not everyone is going to want to install Google Earth and maybe that service won't even exist in the future. I think that missing your KMZ link may have taught me a lesson too. I'm always embedding important links in the middle of text and assuming that people will notice them. After all, these links are obvious to me. When I loaded your page, I scanned down and immediately clicked on the big image. I'd made the intuitive assumption that the KML/KMZ file would be linked to this image. When I discovered that there was no link to that image, I scrolled further and found the links to your static images. I never went back to see that I'd missed the KMZ link embedded in the text. Maybe it would be helpful to link the KMZ URL to that image? Just a thought. I also noticed that the green polygon for William Bartle does not fill completely. It is very jagged. All the others are fine. Thanks again for the information.