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Forkboy2
Cartographer

Reged: 07/16/05
Posts: 441

Over 2,000 historic Topographic maps overlays

#819852 - 03/04/07 12:38 AM

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12/6 - Just finished moving most of this collection to new server and adding several 100 more maps to the collection. Now contains over 1,000 maps and new index system. 7x7 maps don't all work right now since I'm still working on those.

8/24/2007 - Major update to this collection is now underway.

Please re-download the attached network link. Collection now contains an entirely new index system that creates a polygon outline of each map. Just click on the Information Baloon for a link which will turn on a particular map.

Google Earth start up time will not be affected, since the only thing that loads at start up is the small (less than 1K) network link. Nothing else loads until you click on a specific map or collection of maps.

More Info about this collection at Google Earth Library

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Matt
Google Earth Library

Edited by Forkboy2 (01/25/08 08:17 AM)

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Valery35
Master Craftsman

Reged: 09/02/05
Posts: 2269
Loc: Russia, Perm, Sun

Re: 100's of high resolution maps

[Re: Forkboy2]
#821710 - 03/05/07 02:58 PM

WOW!
Great work, Matt!
My congratulations and 5 stars!

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Frank4
Master Blogger

Reged: 07/10/05
Posts: 1024
Loc: Cary, North Carolina, USA

Re: 100's of high resolution maps

[Re: Valery35]
#822350 - 03/06/07 05:23 AM

Excellent work Matt! I've written about your collection today at the Google Earth Blog here.

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All about Google Earth news, features, tips, technologies, and applications.
(If you have story ideas, please send me a private message.)

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Delta102
Master Guide

Reged: 07/07/05
Posts: 4777
Loc: United States

Re: 100's of high resolution maps

[Re: Forkboy2]
#822388 - 03/06/07 06:00 AM

Great work !................Thanks

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ink_polaroid
Sysop

Reged: 01/01/05
Posts: 1868
Loc: SF Bay Area, CA

Re: 100's of high resolution maps

[Re: Forkboy2]
#822757 - 03/06/07 01:15 PM

Darn cool, Matt.

So cool, in fact, that there's a risk people will try to turn on all of the maps at once (or just too many for their computer to handle).

You can use GE to fix this pretty easily by looking at the properties of a folder and selecting "show contents as options".

The relevant KML is explained here:

http://earth.google.com/kml/kml_tags_21.html#listItemType

Basically, you add a ListStyle to whatever styles you have already and give it a listItemType of radioFolder:

Code:


<Style id="radioFolderExample">
  <ListStyle>
    <listItemType>radioFolder</listItemType>
  </ListStyle>
</Style>

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Forkboy2
Cartographer

Reged: 07/16/05
Posts: 441

Re: 100's of high resolution maps

[Re: ink_polaroid]
#822837 - 03/06/07 02:28 PM

Quote:

Darn cool, Matt.

So cool, in fact, that there's a risk people will try to turn on all of the maps at once (or just too many for their computer to handle).

You can use GE to fix this pretty easily by looking at the properties of a folder and selecting "show contents as options".

Thanks, ya, that is always a potential problem. I do make extensive use of the radio buttons for each specific map set, but I'll try using them for the upper folder levels as well.

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Matt
Google Earth Library

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