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Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby John Kirk » Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:37 am

I've enabled Google Earth 3d View on LoJ Google maps - requires a plug-in but is pretty sweet to be able to do this online with LoJ stuff integrated:
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby DSunwall » Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:48 am

I've been doing that with LOJ data for a few years, just convert GPX to KML, having it available directly from this site is a nice addition though. :wiz:

I don't see how to access this.
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby DSunwall » Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:40 am

I do see the bubbles now when I select "Earth" on the maps, the bubbles are dead however.
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby John Kirk » Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:08 am

DSunwall wrote:I do see the bubbles now when I select "Earth" on the maps, the bubbles are dead however.


dead - they don't do anything when you click on them? I don't get any mouseover activity, but they are clickable. I don't think mouseover effects will be possible.
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby DSunwall » Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:13 am

tried again, they are not clickable. Is the plug in something "we" have to install?
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby John Kirk » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:02 pm

DSunwall wrote:tried again, they are not clickable. Is the plug in something "we" have to install?


Yes, however you shouldn't be able to view anything in Earth mode if you don't have it installed. Have you tried firefox?
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby DSunwall » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:11 pm

I am using Google's very own Chrome, should work there. I tried IE, when I click on the bubble it opens another tab with that peaks Topo map showing agian.

with Chrome it doesn't do anything, and no I'm not going to install Firefox, even if it is better, Chrome is faster, IE crawls.
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby DSunwall » Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:39 pm

I have a question related to this. When I bring a GPX file into GE the bubble description shows up without mouseover, I like that for the most part, you don't have to mouse over to see the peak names. How come the bubbles on your google maps do not do that? The GPX file I use is generated from this site.
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Re: Google Earth Browser Plugin

Postby John Kirk » Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:04 pm

DSunwall wrote: How come the bubbles on your google maps do not do that?


Google maps and Google Earth are distinctly different in many ways. Google earth has a set schema for representing points, whereas google maps force you to define how you want things to show up. To my knowledge, there is not a way to have names show up in google maps by default - a user has to prompt for an information window.
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