Hi Thomas, You might not get the complete experience, but you can see Phil's locations and photos using Google Maps.
Go to Google Maps, http://maps.google.com An in the Search Maps bar paste the URL, http://www.shropshiredials.net/doc.kml Hope this helps. Cheers Hank de Wit Adelaide, Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de > [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Steiner > Sent: Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:46 > To: sundial@uni-koeln.de > Subject: Re: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth > > Hi, > > your project sounds (I am at work and do not have google > earth installed, so I cannot see your map.) great, perhaps > you can provide an online version of the map? > Perhaps you want to read this: > http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68480#import > > Thomas > > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:35:48 +0100 > > From: "Phil Walker" <phil.wal...@sunandshadows.net> > > Subject: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth > > To: "Sundial List" <sundial@uni-koeln.de>, "Carl and > Barbara Sabanski" > > <saban...@escape.ca>, "Eddie French" > > <efre...@jerseymail.co.uk>, "J P > > Lester" <john....@tiscali.co.uk>, > <nicolasever...@libero.it>, > > "Richard > > Mallett" <100114....@compuserve.com>, "Roger Bailey" > > <rtbai...@telus.net>, "Woody Sullivan \(Earthdial\)" > > <wo...@astro.washington.edu> > > Message-ID: <d03f027a6eb44af683f4ae31264e6...@pegeia> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Back in December, Roger Bailey set us a challenge for 2009, > to populate a sundial database and display the details using > Google Earth. I rose to the challenge, in a small way, and > here is the result on my website: www.shropshire-sundials.net > I hope you to enjoy it. > > > > > > > > Roger also showed us how to start a sundial trail using > Google Earth and in a later post more ideas on how to add > content to the KML file. My approach was somewhat different, I decided to work directly with the KML language. > > > > > > > > KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language and is a simple, > human-readable format used by Google Earth and now by other > Earth browsers like Microsoft Virtual Earth and NASA > WorldWind. KML 2.2 is now an international standard , located > at www.opengeospatial.org. > > > > To give you an idea of what KML is like, here is a short > snippet: > > > > > > > > > > line > > > > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> > > > > 1 > > > > <kml xmlns='http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2'> > > > > 2 > > > > <Placemark> > > > > 3 > > > > <name>La Nef de Tavel</name> > > > > 4 > > > > <description> > > > > 5 > > > > La Nef Solaire was built in 1993 at a motorway stop > > near Tavel in the Midi of France. 6 > > > > Designed by sculptor Odile Mir and well-known > > "gnomoniste" Denis Savoie, this is > > > > one of the largest and interesting dials in the world > > 7. > > > > </description> > > > > 8 > > > > <Point> > > > > 9 > > > > > > <coordinates>4.70031,44.0013</coordinates> > > > 10 > > > > </Point> > > > > 11 > > > > </Placemark> > > > > 12 > > > > </kml> > > > > 13 > > > > > > > > Type it into your text editor, such as Notepad, save the > file as "La Nef de Tavel.kml" and then click on the KML file > to open up Google Earth and see the aerial view of the huge, > incredible Nef de Tavel..The KML text is quite simple to > understand.The lines 1 and 2 show that this is a KML version > 2.2 file, itself a version of XML. The Placemark beginning > and end tags, line 3 and line 12, enclose the mininum > information for a placemark, a name for the location, line 4, > a description, in this case, line 5 to line 8, and a ponit, > lines 9 to 11,which contains the placemark's coordinates. > Note that the coordinates in decimal degrees are first the > longitude and second ,the latitude. N and E are positive > (+), S and W are negative,(-). > > > > > > > > If you open up my "Shropshire Sundials" KML file with a > Right-Click and use your editor, you will see a number of KML > features which I have used to produce the effects in Google > Earth, including: > > > > > > > > *Icon Style - the gold icons for the > > placemarks > > > > *Balloon Style - which prescribe how the balloons > > created > > > > *Network Link - which links this KML file > to another > > KML file > > > > *Placemark - like the Placemark for > "la Nef de > > Tavel" but with two particular important features > > > > - Description includes > hyperlinks > > to either a website which contains photographs > > > > > and a more detailed description of the dial, the location > and its history. > > > > - Look At feature which effectively > > enables the "pilot" to fly towards the placemark from > > > > > whatever direction, height and range. > > > > > > > > If you want to experiment with the KML language, there are > several options I could recommend: > > > > * KML Documentation: Introduction > > > http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/ > > > > * KML Tutorial > > > http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html > > > > * Discussion - Getting Started with KML > > > http://code.google.com/apis/kml/faq.html > > > > * Books - KML Handbook > > > http://my.safaribooksonline/9780321574404 > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Phil Walker > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > > scrubbed... > > URL: > > > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/private/sundial/attachments/2009033 > > 1/3a638ac1/attachment-0001.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
