wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: WWP Gardens Deadline Approaches
Pat Swovelin 2006-Jul-05 02:41:00
Markus Altendorff wrote:
> waikikiphoto wrote:
>> I didn't send in one, but I would of course like to see the other ones.
>> Are they all going to be on Google Earth or http??
>
> Yes, we've got a Google Earth .KMZ file you can download
> and, a new feature, it's a network link so Google Earth can
> refresh it periodically (i just wish you could tell GE to
> set the update period to more than 99 hours - 99 days would
> be more like it ;)
>
> It contains all panoramas with GPS data we have published so
> far, some 2300...
>
> just click "download placemarks file" at
> http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp_all/index.html
>
> which leads to:
> http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp_all/nwl_all_of_wwp.kml
> (a stub that fetches the large bookmark file over network)
>
> or the (non-networked, non-auto-updating) version at:
> http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp_all/all_of_wwp.kml
>
> With that many placemarks in one file, i'm wondering wether
> splitting it up beforehand and offering the separate events
> as extra files may be a good idea... at least on my mac,
> this single large list gives Google Earth a nice solid kick
> in the ... [ahem] ... and it takes the software some time to
> recover... ;)
It's a "feature"... =8^)
> -Markus
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large