Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Steps for finishing your Google Earth Spanish/Aztec Project


To save a KMZ file see this post at 7:28 to learn how to do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJd2Aw9c_Ng&feature=youtu.be

Go into my places on the right, control click and "add' a folder
Name the folder with the members of group

Drag all 6 markers for your group into the folder
Right click again on My Place and click on "save place as" onto your desktop labeling it with the group members names




Google Earth HTML Code Snippets.

Google Earth balloons can be customized using HTML. You can add font sizes, styles and colours, links, tables and images into your balloons by including it as HTML in the Description.
Adding Images in your Balloons

The easiest way to add the image is if the web site on which it’s posted gives you the “embed code”.  On flickr, for example, if you are logged into your account (free), above each picture will be a button that says Share this. Choose the hmtl code button, don’t worry about the BBCode, it isn’t for us.  Select and copy the code, paste it into the Description for your pin in Google Earth.

If your image is from a website, found through Google Image search for example, you need to get the direct web address for the image. Right click on the image and choose “open in a new window”. Copy the address from the bar and paste into the html code below where the address is.
Make sure you have the <img src= at the beginning and the > at the end.


Embed YouTube videos in your Balloons
http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=475
You can easily embed a YouTube video into a placemark balloon in Google Earth. Find the video you would like to EMBED. On the YouTube video's webpage, choose the SHARE button below the video. Select EMBED. Select and highlight the HTML code in the box. The code looks similar to this:
<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Xrgr7AUNm50&hl=en&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Xrgr7AUNm50&hl=en&fs=1"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"
width="425" height="344">
</embed>
</object>

You can choose the size of the video to appear in your ‘balloon’ in the YouTube page below the embed code.

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