Add a Line to Poi files (KML)

[Les Ashmore]

Hi all I have created a few files with POI's (Places of Interest) which cover Europe and are mainly for Campers and Motorhome users, there are approx 9000 POI's I want to add a line to the end of each POI description identifying that I created them, Is this possible and If so How do I do it please.

Thanks in Advance

[barryhunter (KML Guru)]

Use something like
http://www.ecobyte.com/replacetext/

[Les Ashmore]

Hi Thanks for suggestion, I have tried it and not having any success I think the problem may be that because each file has a few thousand POI locations and each location has a description, It is either at the end or at the beginning of this description that I want to add a line.

[barryhunter (KML Guru)]

At its most basic, you just replace the closing description tag, with
the new line and the same tag.

</description>

with

Created by Les</description>

But you might have to be careful, because if you have HTML in your
description, it probably has CDATA tags, so would be slightly
different, perhaps

]]></description>

with

<p>Created by Les</p>]]></description>



Alternatively if your placemarks have a common Style. Could just do it
with BalloonStyle...
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlreference#balloonstyle

[Les Ashmore]

Thanks Barry that is working brilliantly, Just one small edit needed, when I enter that as described I need to enter a line break before the "Created By" as this edit is just adding to the end of text and it looks pretty poor.

On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 08:58:25 UTC, Les Ashmore wrote:

[Les Ashmore]

Sorted, Worked a Treat, It works a lot better if you read the directions correctly instead of thinking you have read them.

Thank you.

Les

On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 08:58:25 UTC, Les Ashmore wrote: