User:Morriswa/Easy KML instructions

Easy KML instructions

Drawing

1. In the Places pane, right-click the folder you are storing your routes in and select Add>Path to bring up the Google Earth - New Path dialog box.
2. Name it after your highway.
3. In the Style, Color tab, set the color to pure red (second column, fourth row in the palette or r:255 g:0 b:0) and set the width to 5.0.
4. Without closing the dialog box, start tracing your line. You may want to drag the dialog box over to the side; it can be annoying.
   • Once the dialog box has lost focus (i.e., you click to place your first point on the map), you can use your arrow keys to pan the map.
5. Create your line, point-by-point.

Exporting

1. Once you have finished tracing your line, press ok on the dialog box to close it. Your new path should be listed in the Places pane, within your folder.
2. Right-click that entry (or the line itself on the map), and select Save Place As...
3. Change the Save as type to Kml (it defaults to .kmz when you start the program).
4. Save the file.
5. Locate the file on your computer and open it with a plain text editor.
6. Select all>Copy.
7. Now create a new subpage of Template:Attached KML using the title of the article – Ontario Highway 401 becomes Template:Attached KML/Ontario Highway 401)
8. Paste the content into this new page and save.
9. Now add {{Attached KML}} to the article itself, in the External links section if it exists.
10. Profit.

Users to ask

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