hello again Ricardo

I have just tried out your great program and then went to edit one of the points.

The message I get is "You are trying to edit a collection of geometry items. Only Editing of the first item will be possible."

Is it possible to edit one of the midpoints in the path that is created?

The other way I can see from your program is that I can then save the output path as a txt file, then place the coordinates into another path file. This then gets the coordinates out of all the different placemarks into one file.

thanks
Mark

Hi Mark,


<Is it possible to edit one of the midpoints in the path that is created?>

I don't now if you can do that directly in GE-Plus (I don't have it). However you can edit the kml file in a text editor and change the coordinates as you wish. GE will take the lat/lon changes but I don't know about altitudes.

< I can see from your program is that I can then save the output path as a txt file>

Actually it does not save the path. It saves only the list of waypoint names, descriptions and coordinates for further processing. However you can open the kml file in a text editor. The path coordinates will be:

<LineString>
<coordinates>
Path coordinates here: lon1,lat1,alt1 lon2,lat2,alt2, ....
</coordinates>
</LineString>

Regards

Sgrillo

Ricardo I may not have explained myself very well.

In a normal path that has been created by anyone using GE you can click on the kml file that has been opened on the left and go edit. (if it is in a kmz you need to save it as a kml first). I think you can do this with the free version if you use one someone else has created.

You can then find the path in the file, select edit and then move any of the points in the path. The point are small placemarkers in the path for the coordinates. You have to zoom down pretty close to see the point markers.

With GEPath when you try to edit the path the message from the previous post appears and you can only edit one point and not any of those elsewhere in the path.

I hope this makes it clearer.

Mark

It appears that you are trying to edit all the contents of one folder, OR one placemark that contains <MultiGeometry>. If you are sure you are only trying to edit one placemark, and you get that error, then it contains <MultiGeometry>. If this is the case, then you cannot use GE to edit it. You must use a text editor, or some other program.

Hope this helps.

p.s. Could you post the specific file that you are a having a problem with?

Yes, now I understand what you are talking about. I tried to have GE-Path generating kml files similar to that generated by GE, but I may have done mistakes.

As mcshea98 noted, the Multigeometry tags may be the problem.

Could you please remove these tags (with a text editor) from the file generated by GE-Path (see below) and try again?

(It is in the last lines of the kml file)



If this fix the problem I will revise GE-Path code and fix it.

Ricardo I deleted the multigeometry tags and everything now seems to be fine.

mcshea98 - I have attached the file minus the <multigeometry> tags.

Mark

rsgrillo & scious,

<MultiGeometry> is Great for combining multiple placemarks, linestrings and polygons into one placemark; but when there is only one sub-element, it gets in the way.

Hope this helps.

p.s. I also use this tag when I want to limit (not stop) other people from editing the file.

scious and mcshea98

Yes, in GE-Path the <MultiGeometry> is to be used when it draws polygons in the placemarks. However this tag was left in the Path option also. This is a bug in the application. I will be able to fix it next week (I am out of my place this week).

Tanks you both

Wanted to let you know that when I loaded the program on my new XP laptop, a window comes up that says the program may be out of date and fails to run. I removed the file.

Hi Bill,

Welcome to the forum

Thank you for the information. It is the first report of this installation msg.

I suspect that you don't have installed the vb6 runtimes file. This file is necessary to run the program. If you don't have you can download it from microsoft.

Also would be nice if you could send my, or post, the file ST6UNST.LOG. It shall be in the installation directory, probably "program files/ge-path"