User:Morriswa/Easy KML instructions

Easy KML instructions

 * Drawing
 * 1) In the Places pane, right-click the folder you are storing your routes in and select Add>Path to bring up the Google Earth - New Path dialog box.
 * 2) Name it after your highway.
 * 3) In the Style, Color tab, set the color to pure red (second column, fourth row in the palette or r:255 g:0 b:0) and set the width to 5.0.
 * 4) Without closing the dialog box, start tracing your line. You may want to drag the dialog box over to the side; it can be annoying.
 * 5) * Once the dialog box has lost focus (i.e., you click to place your first point on the map), you can use your arrow keys to pan the map.
 * 6) Create your line, point-by-point.


 * Exporting
 * 1) Once you have finished tracing your line, press ok on the dialog box to close it. Your new path should be listed in the Places pane, within your folder.
 * 2) Right-click that entry (or the line itself on the map), and select Save Place As...
 * 3) Change the Save as type to Kml (it defaults to .kmz when you start the program).
 * 4) Save the file.
 * 5) Locate the file on your computer and open it with a plain text editor.
 * 6) Select all>Copy.
 * 7) Now create a new subpage of Template:Attached KML using the title of the article – Ontario Highway 401 becomes Template:Attached KML/Ontario Highway 401)
 * 8) Paste the content into this new page and save.
 * 9) Now add Attached KML to the article itself, in the External links section if it exists.
 * 10) Profit.

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