KML Capability

[George Miyamoto]

Hi-

I've been working on a mapping system and stumbled upon Google Earth and KML capabilities.

I wanted to know if I was going down the right path with my project and needed to verify a few things:

1. If I create a custom polygon/KML file, will it contain the lat/long of every point that I created?  Ex:  I have a pentagon shaped polygon, will it store all 5 points?
2. I thought that if I used the path tool, if I connect the end and start points, it would create a polygon, correct?  I can't seem to get it to work.  How do I get it to work?

Thank you!

[barryhunter (KML Guru)]

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>    1. If I create a custom polygon/KML file, will it contain the lat/long

>    of every point that I created?  Ex:  I have a pentagon shaped polygon, will
>    it store all 5 points?

Of course! How could it not?



>    2. I thought that if I used the path tool, if I connect the end and

>    start points, it would create a polygon, correct?  I can't seem to get it
>    to work.  How do I get it to work?

Google Earth has a dedicated Polygon tool. Use that to create
Polygons, rather than the Path tool!

[George Miyamoto]

Thank you for the quick response.  The polygon tool is nice, but doesn't seem to work.  I downloaded a Google Map overlay and the polygon tool doesn't display the highlights when I start to plot.  Only the path tool seems to work.