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spanring.name: Your comment about ogr2ogr got me thinking about ways to automate the kml->shapefile process and I came up with a little script that seems to work: http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=3. I’ve tried it on a few kml files and your stylesheet has worked each time. (via Cosmos)

Shanafelt Sector: Google Code: Google Earth KML Tutorial (via Cosmos)

Occam's Razor: Insightful essays on subjects both trivial and profound: The RSS news feed format, since it represents news, assumed that the key data in a RSS feed will be read by a human being. Therefore, an RSS news item might have a title like "Latest Station X Gauge Reading" and content something like "Station X on River Y reported a gauge height of Z at Time T". (via Cosmos)

 [Great Map] Multimap (http://www.multimap.com) released its fi...: E-Map (http://www.e-map.com/) is an electronic 'map'(?) for new Internet travelers in the same way that the oil company road map in the 1920's -30's was a highway map for new auto travelers. The goal of E-Map is to provide a starting point for entry into high quality, broad interest World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire.

 [Brian Flood] Arc2Earth and ArcMap: As the number of online spatial viewers increases, it’s my hope that we can share all of this data in the future and for better or worse, KML is pretty decent format to do it in. One could argue that GML is more suitable but I think it would still need to be wrapped in other tags to perform all of the operations KML encompasses, specifically the communication mechanisms.

[Ogle Earth] Tutorial: How to use Java to serve networks links: Java World has an expansive tutorial with plenty of code examples for serving KML network links that interact with Google Earth. (Via lindenb's Connotea bookmarks)

 [The.taoofmac.com] The Tao of Mac - blog/2005-07-04: You can set the placemark properties to force a refresh when the camera stops, and Google Earth will invoke your PHP script with the view boundaries, therefore saving you the trouble of sending redundant data (that won't get displayed) or enabling you to send more detailed data as the view becomes more precise.

 [Makezine.com] MAKE: Blog: HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth....: You can do it in a few ways, the simpliest way that I've found is to download this KML (Google Earth file) that will look for photos wherever you're zoomed in to and stopped moving. Right click this link, save it, and once you install Google Earth double click it.

 [Gearthblog.com] Google Earth Blog: Google Earth Files - KML/KMZ: If you understand basic HTML/XML you can easily get started by saving a simple placemark you've created as a KML file (not the default KMZ), and looking at the resulting text file. If you are a programmer you will probably be fascinated by the topic of Network Links.

 [Cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk] Mark McLaren's Weblog - Using Google Earth's KML with J2EE (JSP/JSTL): This is the JSP page which will dynamically create KML documents and will be called periodically (at an interval defined in the previous document) by the Google Earth Client:

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