PenguinOpus
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| 09/30/05 09:13 AM |
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Google Earth icons for use on your website
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This is an informal announcement of our recommended icons for highlighting placemarks, network links, and offering Google Earth for download.
For Placemarks, you can see what we've done here on the GEC. Use this icon ( http://www.google.com/earth/images/google_earth_link.gif ):
You can link directly to our hosted image, and for now that's recommended in case we tweak it.
For network links ( http://www.google.com/earth/images/google_earth_feed.gif ):
And, if you want to offer a quick link to the Google Earth (free) download ( http://www.google.com/earth/images/download_earth.gif ):
Have this icon click through to: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html so that people understand that they're downloading from Google and also what the system requirements are.
Feedback is appreciated.
Made first link clickable.
| Jason_Birch |
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| 09/30/05 02:31 PM |
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Re: Google Earth icons for use on your website
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Cool. There are some layout issues when providing network links and placemarks in the same area. It would be nice if there were either two circle-shaped icons or two boxes.
Jason
| mhannebert |
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| 10/01/05 12:07 AM |
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Beautiful icons ! Thanks.
| Frank4 |
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| 10/04/05 08:22 AM |
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I think you need to post this announcement in a place where more web site owners are likely to see it. Maybe the News Forum and/or the FAQ forum.
| Red_Rover1 |
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| 10/04/05 09:59 AM |
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Nice icons. Good way to get Google Earth out to users with a consistent message.
| Red_Rover1 |
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| 10/17/05 07:48 PM |
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Quote:
I think you need to post this announcement in a place where more web site owners are likely to see it. Maybe the News Forum and/or the FAQ forum.
I second that, it took me 10 minutes to find this post again even though I knew about it.
| Hulk |
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| 11/15/05 12:39 PM |
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Quote:
For network links ( http://www.google.com/earth/images/google_earth_feed.gif ):
Very cute - buy why is there a Swiss flag?
A little tweak and it could be a Danish flag 
| Valery35 |
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| 11/30/05 01:03 AM |
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It is possible to add here button link to bbs.keyhole.com forums?
| Periboob |
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| 12/13/05 08:00 PM |
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Just to brain-storm a bit, here is an idea, not too original, maybe a bit large...
a little smaller
| The_kind_Uli |
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| 12/26/05 02:14 AM |
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I think you need to post this announcement in a place where more web site owners are likely to see it. Maybe the News Forum and/or the FAQ forum.
Yes, very good idea. I would support the idea to place this thread more on top level, maybe also to include it in the tutorials.
| Valery35 |
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| 01/02/06 03:44 PM |
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Bit - my site sign only, no theme
Hm... maybe theme?
And to work as theme (by layers)
http://www.mi-perm.ru/gis/images/tobbs.psd
Inverse theme see http://www.mi-perm.ru/gis/earth/legend/transportation/index.htm
| AmericanXplorer13 |
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| 01/02/06 06:08 PM |
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I just made this one. I hope you like it!
| Valery35 |
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| 01/02/06 06:31 PM |
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Not large?
May be
I long find bug
| jmaze11 |
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| 02/24/06 08:59 AM |
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The last link in the original post does not work.
The requested URL /download/earth/index.html was not found on this server.
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ink_polaroid
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| 03/12/06 03:07 PM |
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Thanks. I've changed it to the correct url.
| gscad2004 |
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| 04/08/06 03:41 AM |
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Thankīs for this description
in german " Danke für diese Anweisungen Hi
itīs make Fun
gerd gscad2004
Obelix
PS: i have created KML with your Help, how can i post it ?
itīs all OK !!! Hi
| AmericanXplorer13 |
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| 04/24/06 01:31 PM |
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New Banner by AX13
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Here's a new one I just made. The small one is hard to see, but the large one is a bit more clear.
LARGE
SMALL
Please tell me how you like this one and if you want me to change anything about it.
I will continue making more banners.
| AmericanXplorer13 |
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| 04/24/06 05:33 PM |
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Here's another one, will get to the smaller one later.
Here's the smaller one.
| AmericanXplorer13 |
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| 04/25/06 05:26 AM |
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The smaller one's comming!
Here it is!
| AmericanXplorer13 |
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| 04/25/06 11:35 AM |
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| K6RIX |
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| 05/25/06 10:09 AM |
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Quote:
For Placemarks, you can see what we've done here on the GEC. Use this icon (http://www.google.com/earth/images/google_earth_link.gif ):
Is there a larger version of this icon or other icons I can use? I'm using it here...
http://www.k6rix.com/fieldday.html
Dino - K6RIX
| AmericanXplorer13 |
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| 06/24/06 11:17 AM |
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Here's my favorite one. I'm using it on my Wikipedia page. Please tell me what you think.
| Mithgol_the_Webmaster |
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| 07/05/06 10:23 PM |
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special cursor over GE-related hypelinks
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There is another way to mark links to Google KMZ files; you may change cursor that browsers use over such links, adding Google Earth icon to the standard hand and its index finger.
Use the following HTML code example as your template:
Code:
<a style="cursor: url(http://Mithgol.Ru/Live/Journal/Cursor/kmz.cur), pointer;"
href="http://Mithgol.Ru/Earth/shubino.kmz"
title="Google Earth: ...">your link text here</a>
Type your own KMZ URL inside the href="http://..." attribute.
Use your own link text between <a> and </a> tags.
There are some browsers that do not enjoy complete implementation of the section 18.1 of CSS level 2 revision 1 specifications, that's why link cursors cannot be downloaded in such browsers (e.g. in Opera), and standard hand cursor is shown instead. Therefore some floating tooltip is also necessary to provide a hint. Extend the contents of title="..." attribute to something like title="Google Earth: [your placemark name here]".
However, the above mentioned section of CSS 2.1 is well implemented in MSIE 6 and Firefox 1.5, so the cursor is downloaded and works as desired for the majority of your audience.
You may also wish to download http://Mithgol.Ru/Live/Journal/Cursor/kmz.cur and save the file locally on your web site, so that much shorter relative URL can be used inside url(...) brackets. I encourage this idea, because it saves traffic of my own Mithgol.Ru site.
Advanced coders may also notice that it is not necessary to repeat style="..." definition for each KMZ hyperlink; you may define a special class in your stylesheet instead, and make the overall code size shorter.
Good luck.
| Valery35 |
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| 07/06/06 01:30 AM |
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Good
Also nice wiki page. Maybe add links to forums?
Maybe use " GEC tm " as base and make design for this?
| box |
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| 07/07/06 07:08 AM |
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i would have a try