Google Earth Training

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Google Earth Advanced: Creating Tours
Decide on the purpose of your tour: See idea sheet.
Create 4-6 place marks for your tour. Each stop is a separate place mark.
Step 1: Fly to your first location.
Locate the Search Panel on the left. Type in your first location in the
Fly to Window as shown on the left.
-Click on the magnifying glass or press the Enter Key on your keyboard to
fly there.
Note: If you are not specific enough, it will list other places it thinks you
may want in the search window below from which you have to choose.
Google Earth will fly to
that location.
Now zoom in to the
place you want to add
your first stop.
Step 2: Add a Place Mark to that location.
Click on the Place Mark Push Pin icon in the top toolbar as shown below.
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Step 3: Name your place mark and write a description if you like.
Adding Breaks: You can add a line or paragraph break in text to separate them. Here is the code for breaks.
 

Line break
Paragraph break and inserts and is equal to two line breaks 
I put a paragraph break at the end of my sentence below. I can also add directions to turn on layers.
The Eiffel Tower is located in France.
Add directions to turn on layers.
Open Geographic Web Layer
Check Panoramio
Click OK
Edit the location of your place mark. You can also click on the place mark and move it around to the
exact place that you want it to appear. Or click on the Altitude tab to adjust.
Step 4: Edit the Place Mark Properties
Note: All place mark editing is always done in this window. This includes
adding text, pictures, websites and videos.
If you close this window, you can still edit this place mark later.
Right click on the place mark in your places pane on the left.
Choose properties
Change the place mark icon properties
Click on the yellow push pin icon in the top right hand
corner of the place mark properties window.
Choose a different icon:
Just click on the icon that you want.
You could also click on Add Custom Icon… and add
your own.
Change the icon color:
Click on the square next to color at the top.
Make the place mark larger or smaller.
Use the up and down arrows next to scale to
change the size.
You will see what the place mark icon looks in
Google Earth as you are changing the properties.
Click OK when you are finished
Change the Font Label properties
Click on the Style, Color Tab as shown
Change the font color and size of the label.
You can also change the icon color and size here, but
you can’t change the icon in this window.
Click on Altitude tab to change place mark also.
Click OK
Using Code to form the Font inside your place marker balloon
Task
Bold Text
Underline Text
Italicize Text
Code
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
Results
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
Change the background color of your place mark balloon
Change the back ground color of your balloon
Find the number of your custom colors
<body bgcolor=gray
<body bgcolor=X>
<body bgcolor=#6633CC>
STOP: Now add at least 4 more place marks before you continue.
Edit each of these place mark icons and information.
Now let’s go back to the first place mark and learn more ways to edit and add content.
Step 5: (Optional) Add Layers- to the outside of your place mark
Add Layers for your place mark.
Adding layers to your place mark, allow viewers to see information about your location, such as the weather,
roads, geographic features, videos and pictures. These layers show up outside of your place mark balloon.
Make sure to adjust the altitude so you can see the layers appear.
*Turn on Layer- Panoramio pictures
Click on the + Sign next to Geographic Web layer. Click in the box next to Panoramio
You will now place a camera or dot icon on the screen that will bring up a photo when student’s click on it.
Make sure to zoom in close enough to see the layer.
*Hold shift key down and scroll
with your mouse to tilt view.
Have fun: Check the 3D Buildings
layer
Step 6: Add content to the inside of your place mark
1. Add a Website URL link to your place mark balloon
A. Pasting the URL website directly
B. Add html code
Right Click on your place mark and choose Properties
A. Paste the URL address directly into the
Description window without any code
Results: You will actually see the website address in
the balloon that you can click on
Disadvantage: Some URL’s
are very long, making the
balloon look cluttered.
Click OK when finished.
B. Add link using html Code.
Insert the following code into the Description
window:
<a href="type link here">type words you want
to appear</a> the code is to add space.
Results: the words “Read about the History” are the
hyperlink. None of the URL is shown. See example
below.
Viewing the website from the place mark balloon
Click on the place mark so the balloon is open like the screenshot up above on the right.
On this computer, the
website came up at the
bottom.
To view in a separate
window, click on the last
view.
To close the website, click
the X.
You can also add questions or give directions
In your place mark balloons
Write them directly into the description window
Type questions that they must answer by
visiting the website you posted.
Give directions for students here on what
you want them to do.
You could also tell them to turn on a layer to
see more information:
Example: Turn on the Weather layer and student
can see the temperature and a 5 day forecast.
Click OK when finished.
Example:
Here on the right I added questions for students to answer
2. Add (Embed) an image inside your place mark balloon
A. Directly from the Internet
B. From a picture saved on a computer, CD or flash drive
A. Add an image directly from the Internet
Search on the Internet for the picture you want.
Right click on that picture and choose Properties
Highlight the Address (URL)
Copy the address
-Right click copy or
-Control “C” on the keyboard.
Now go back to your place mark properties window in Google Earth. If you closed the properties window,
just right click on your place mark in your Places Panel. Choose Edit>Properties.
Now insert the following code:
Code paraphrased by me:
<img src=paste the address that was copied>
Real Code:
<img src=”source.jpg”>
See this example.
Click Ok
Notice how the picture now shows up
inside the place mark balloon.
Remember, you can type after the
code you typed to put a paragraph
break if you are going to add anything
else after this picture.
Add a Picture from the Hard Drive
First find the properties of your saved picture.
Do a right click on your picture that you want to use.
Select Properties as shown here on the left.
Highlight and copy the location.
Once you paste it into Google Earth
properties window, you will also have to
come back and copy the picture name at
the top.
Here it is EiffelTower.jpg
Paste this to the end of your code.
The code will look like this:
<img src="C:\Documents and
Settings\ShThornton\Desktop\EiffelTower.jpg">
Insert the following code in the
properties window.
(see previous page)
<img src=”source.jpg”>
Example:
<img src="C:\Documents and
Settings\ShThornton\Desktop\EiffelTower.jpg">
Click OK.
When I open the place mark I now see this new picture that I
added from my computer.
3. Embed a Video into your place mark
A. Paste the URL website of the video. This becomes a clickable link from the place mark balloon.
B. Embed the video using Code right in the place mark balloon.
A. Copy and paste the URL website into your place mark.
Locate the video online.
Find the URL address.
Highlight and copy it.
Paste this into your place
mark.
When you click on this link in the place mark, it will launch the Internet site so you can watch the video.
B. Embed the Video using Code
Locate the video online.
Find the embed code
Highlight and copy it.
Here you can see I typed: Watch the video on the history of
the Eiffel Tower.. and then I pasted the embedded code.
Results:
When I click on the place mark, this
embedded video is ready to play right
from within this window.
Save Your Place Marks as a Tour under My Places
Now that you have a collection of place marks- you can put these in a folder to play as a tour. This will
be saved in the My Places panel on the left side bar as shown below. This tour can only be played on
the computer that it was created on.
Go the Places Panel on the side bar.
Right click on the World icon that says, “My
Places.”
Choose Add>Folder as shown on the left.
Name your tour
Add a description if you like.
This could be notes to your students with directions
or information whoever else is viewing the tour.
Click OK
Notice how the folder shows up at the bottom under
your last place mark.
Now drag each place mark into that Folder.
Make sure to put them in the correct order.
Notice how there is now a + sign in front of the
folder
Notice, also, that the place marks are now inside
of this folder.
To Play the Tour
1. You can open the folder and just double
click on each place mark. It will fly there
and then open the balloon to see the
contents.
2. Double Click on your tour folder to open
the contents.
Click on the Folder Play > button at the bottom
Note: Make sure all of your place marks are checked.
It will fly to your 1st place
mark.
You will see the tour player
show up at the bottom of your
screen now.
Click on pause.
Click on the Eiffel Tower place
mark to see your place mark
balloon with information.
Resume the tour. Once it lands on your second place mark, click on pause and double click
the next place mark to see the contents just like above.
Save this Tour as a KMZ File
This is Google Earth’s file extension
This will allow the tour to be emailed to someone or saved on the school’s network drive for
students to open while in the computer lab.
Right click on the Tour Folder.
Choose Save Place As…
Navigate to the place you want to save.
You could save this tour in the student
documents folder for your students to access
in the computer lab.
Click Save.
Now anyone with Google Earth can open this file and it will launch the Google Earth application and the tour
will come up under Temporary places.
Set up Touring Behavior
Click on Tools>Options… in the top menu bar
Click on the Touring tab as shown below.
Here you can set:
The Touring Speed
Pause Time in wait at feature.
If you want you can check “Show
balloon when waiting at features”
Create a Narrated Tour
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html#
Embed Google Earth Tour into your website through Embed KML or Embed Tour Gadgets
Embed your Google Earth tour into your website using the Embed KML and Embed Tour gadgets.
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_kmlembed.html
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http://code.google.com/apis/kml/embed/tourgadge
t.xml
Import Importing Global Positioning Systems (GPS) data in Google Earth
Google Earth can import GPS data in two ways: through a direct connection to your handheld GPS device, or
through a GPS file, such as a .gpx file, downloaded to your computer by other third-party software like GPS
Babel.
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_importgps.html
Import GPS data from a hand held device
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_importgps.html#gpsdevice
Extras:
Add a photo or Image Overlays to the outside of your place marker
Quick Video Tutorial: http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html#
Click on the Add Image
Overlay button
1. Add an Overlay
Browse to find your image as shown on the
left.
You can click on the tabs to change the
properties.
Under transparency:
You can drag the bar to make your image
more transparent if you like.
Click OK.
This is what
the overly
looks like
below.
Add a Photo Overlay
Edit or Change the properties
the same way as overlays.
This is what the photo overlay
looks like.
It looks like we are visiting the
Eiffel Tower.

Google Earth Training

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