Using Google Earth to view a Family Tree GEDCOM
Switcher
I've put together a file for my Skinner tree which shows the kind of
thing I'm trying to achieve. If you have a copy of Google Earth you can
view it here -
http://www.familytreeassistant.com/SkinnerTree20080625.kmz
Don't forget to expand the time span slider in the top right corner of
the Google Earth screen (click on the right hand side of the slider and
drag to the right).
The above tree was produced from a GEDCOM export using the <a
http://www.familytreeassistant.com
Hope this is of use to you.
Tim
>Hmm! Most of my 'locations' would probably lie in one of the fuzzy,
>less-photographed areas of the globe
>Now what would be really cool is a location+time coordinate, and use
>some
>genius product to go back to that street (or whatever) in, say, 1890.
:-)
> Tony Proctor
>"Mardon" <mgb72...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> I'm in the process of creating a KML file to identify all of my
important
> family history locations. For people not familiar with KML, it's
Keyhole
> Markup Language, something akin to HTML or XML but it's used in
> conjunction
> with geographic browsers like Google Earth.
> My plan is to start with only Placemarks but add images later on. Has
> anyone done this? I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone
who
> has
> shared their KML file(s) publicly as I plan to do. A URL for such a
file
> would be great. I'd love to take a look at what others have already
done
> along these lines.
> Thanks, Mardon