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    1. Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?
    2. Kerry Raymond
    3. The other trap for young players is in embedding images in KML/KMZs. You must provide the full URL for the image not just a local reference (as you can when embedding an image on a HTML page). That is, <img src="http://www.wherever.com/folder/folder/folder/photo.JPG"> As most photos from a digital camera are pretty large, you will probably want to scale the photo down a bit, e.g. <img height = 200 width=300 src="http://www.wherever.com/folder/folder/folder/photo.JPG"> Obviously fiddle with the height/width until you get the size (and ratio) you like the look of. Although I have made KMLs by hand-editing them, creating KMZs inside Google Earth is a lot easier and most of the functionality that I need is available through the Google Earth interface, so I rarely do it any other way. What a lot of people do not realise is that you can edit Google Mark placemarks by right-clicking the item in your Places menu and then selecting Properties. It used to be very obvious but in the later versions of Google Earth, they changed the interface and it seems people find the current way less obvious. Kerry

    02/14/2008 11:08:17