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Google earth, getting directions.
By: Intelinside Date: April 4, 2012, 4:22 am
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Using Google Earth to pin point places and find directions.
Start-up Google earth, if you don’t already have a copy download
it from here
HTML http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html
With GE running Zoom into the map to bring up the details of the
area you wish to depart from ie your house.
Towards the top, left of center, you will see a row of icons.
The second one along looks like a small yellow push pin and when
you hover the mouse over it a tool tip message will appear with
the words Add Place mark.
A single left click on this icon will open a postcard sized Data
box entitled Google Earth-New Place mark with the NAME BOX filed
in with the words Untitled Place mark, a Yellow push pin inside
a flashing square box will also be placed onto the map in the
center of the screen.
Without clicking just type the name of this new marker, i.e. My
House, The airport, Swimming Pool Etc, you will find that the
highlighted text Untitled Place mark will be replaced with the
letters you have just typed.
NOTE, this is a windows function, whenever you see text, in a
word doc, a save dialog box, a folder name that is highlighted
in blue, anything you type will delete the highlighted text and
be replaced with the keystrokes you type.
Now move you mouse over the map area and left click and hold the
mouse button down while you drag and re-position the push pin so
that it is exactly over the House, Airport, Swimming Pool etc.
when you are satisfied it is in the correct position click the
OK button on the Data box that is on the screen. The flashing
box will disappear and the name you placed into the data box
will appear next to the push pin. You will also notice that on
the left of the map there is a navigation panel and under the
PLACES heading you will see a tick box, a push pin & the name
you gave the place mark. When you eventually exit Google Earth
you will be asked to save your temporary place marks, make sure
you do this!!!
Repeat this procedure for a second place mark, ie where you wish
to travel to. When you have both place marks on the map area
select the one that will be your starting point and while
hovering the mouse over it right click and select DIRECTIONS
FROM HERE from the context menu that comes up on the screen. Now
move to the other place mark and repeat the procedure but this
time select DIRECTIONS TO HERE.
In the navigation pane on the left you will see your directions
step by step and turn by turn, at the top of the directions you
can click PRINTABLE VIEW, this allows the map and directions to
be sent to your printer.
If you want to give directions to your house, for example, for
someone but you are not sure which direction, or from where
they will start then you can email these place marks very
easily.
Move the cursor over the place mark you wish to email and click
the right mouse button, in the context menu that appears click
Email…
If your default email client is Outlook, Thunderbird or Gmail
then these services will be listed in the dialog box that will
open on the screen. Select the email client you wish to use and
a new mail message box will open using that client. The subject
field will be filled in for you as will the attachment of the
place mark (this is a kmz file and can be opened with Google
earth)
When the recipient receives the email, all they need to do is
click the attachment and (assuming they have it) Google earth
will open and fly directly to the place on the map you marked.
The above text is available for download in PDF format from the
link below.
Edited to correct spelling mistakes (i wish i could read and
write in at least one language)
Due to attachment space allocation size on the forum it has been
necessary to remove this attachment, should you still require a
copy please contact me and i can email you a copy.
#Post#: 141--------------------------------------------------
Re: Google earth, getting directions.
By: Intelinside Date: January 5, 2013, 9:38 am
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When you add place markers, your places etc to the map view in G
Earth, this data is stored in a file on your computer. Should
you ever need to re-instal your operating system completely from
scratch you will find that when you re-install G earth all these
places/Push pin markers are missing. To ensure this does not
happen i suggest you add the following file to your backups.
C:\users\ Your Name\app data\localLow\Google\Google
Earth\myplaces.kml
where Your Name is the account name you usually log in with when
starting up windows. Should you be unfortunate to have to reload
your Operating system this file can be placed back in the same
folder over-writing the newly created version.
Should have put this in the original write up but it never
crossed my mind, Thanks to FRED for finding the file path
information and saving me the time.
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