Greetings mcshea98.

This is by far one of the best overlay image maps created for the Google earth app that I have come across. I have not seen any postings from you since 8.03.05
and I am wondering are you working on any updates to this wonderful *.kmz you have designed and fixed any of the known bugs?

I am really surprised you off-centered some of the ballons for nations (how did the US location end up in France? But I took it as a humorous joke unlike how some others may take it.

So I was also wondering why you could not use the CIA factbook flag images instead of imageshack for most of the nations as a majority of the flags would not display when the ballon hovered over a country I clicked on. Was this because of a legal/permission issue? If so, I wonder what the CIA would say about linking the flag images from their site with your *kmz file.

Could we possibly just request their permission to use their image links? I am sure they would wind up using your *.kmz in the future instead of re-inventing the wheel and developing something similar in-house all over again if they have not already done so or have something similar.

I have already begun reverse engineering your code to update some of the flags for nations I have viewed that did not work with the CIA factbook website. I could offer to send it to you so you could post if their would not be any legality issue with using their images, otherwise I would just keep it for my own use. Also I am looking into correcting some of those other known bugs and I will get back to you on that as soon as I can figure out reversing the rest of your code. I did take a look at the *.kml example you posted on another thread so that helps out alot.

Apologize about the long message, I will be brief next time. Take care, and by the way, I live in VA also.

Respectfully,
Kdrobins