Cant get the colors correct in my KML!

[toby]

Hi, I´ve tried and i´ve tried but i can´t get it to work.

See the attached kml file, it has no color tags at all, giving it a default color.

But i don´t want it like this, I´d like it green=)

Please help me with this. Where do i put a color tag and how should it look like?

I´m going crazy on this!

/Toby

[Brendan Kenny]

Hi Toby,

<color> elements are generally added to styles, which are in turn
associated with KML features. Search the reference document for the
references to "<color>" to see the many places that color elements are
supported:

http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html

Most of the examples given in that document also show how styles can
be declared and then associated with e.g. Placemarks.

Cheers,
Brendan

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[toby]

Hi Brendan, thanks for the help!

 

I put this at the top of the kml:

<Document>

<name>LineStyle.kml</name>

<open>1</open>

<Style id="linestyleExample">

<LineStyle>

<color>7f0000ff</color>

<width>4</width>

</LineStyle>

</Style>

 

And then this at the start of every line.

<Placemark id="kml_1">

<name>kml_1</name>

<styleUrl>#linestyleExample</styleUrl>

And this works, the line does change color! ..but there still is a problem.

I have created my kml-files thru converting a shapefile. And the shapefile includes over 500 lines with their own attributes.

Therefor, the problem is that using the tags above forces me to write that <styleurl> over 500 times, one time for every line. Would´nt it be some way easier to give all the lines the same color somehow?

/Toby

[Brendan Kenny]

Hi Toby,

You do indeed need a styleUrl per placemark. I would suggest either
auto-generating your KML so you don't have to write each one by hand,
or simplifying your geometry in some way so you don't need as many
style references.

Cheers,
Brendan

[toby]

Hi thanks for the help! The lines are allright, but i still have problems with my polygons.

I put this tags for coloring my polygon:

<Style id="test">

<LineStyle>

<color>6414B400</color>

<width>3</width>

</LineStyle>

<PolyStyle>

<color>64F00014</color>

</PolyStyle>

</Style>

And it gets the colors i want, but the colors are transparent. Why?

cheers /Toby

[Rossko]

> <color>64F00014</color>

> And it gets the colors i want, but the colors are transparent. Why?

Because that's what you ask for. Have you seen
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html#color
which describes the opacity part (64 in your case)