Google Earth thread!

Can anyone recommend alternatives?

I'll be releasing a little utility soon which should do this for you (amongst other things) ... I`ll post when it's ready.

Cheers
Dave

Thanks Dave, but I am intrigued..............and look forward to your programme.

Will try to do some work on the geocoder utility and KML generator over the bank hols...

There's quite a few options for KML in addition to lat/long title and description - eg overlays/paths/polygons etc.

I can build these extra options in if anyone is interested, but preferably only if they are actually required.

Let me know...

Cheers
Dave

NGR input as I tend not to use Lat/Lon due to the liklihood of typos

This will automatically convert your NGR's to decimal lat long - will look into postcodes while I`m at it.

Cheers
Dave

My requirement is simple, I would like to be able to alphabetically sort a folder (or folders) of Placenames. The only utility I have seen so far has a low limit to the capacity which can be sorted at one time.

Any bells and whistles may be useful eventually.

sort a folder (or folders) of Placenames

OK... What is you default folder for saving?

eg... C:MyMapsbuildings

Don`t worry too much about the above, but it would give me a clue about how to set the save/sort options for starters.

Otherwise I have a few "user notes" to complete, after which I should have something ready for release tomorrow. I would really appreciate the assistance of a few volunteer testers to help me make the thing more user friendly and sort out features and options etc. (PM please if you'd like to help)

(Windows machines only - no Mac or Linux version as yet)

Cheers
Dave

Dave,

I keep a folder hieracrchy in the GE management 'Places' and back it up after any changes to an external drive by 'Savie Places As'' and selecting the main folder so that all sub-folders are included. This, of course, saves the file as a single GE Icon file which cannot be opened outside of GE (or can it?) I have 'Places' saved in both .kmz and .kml.

For practical purposes (size limitations), if a 'sorting' utility is availabe, I can save the folders that I want to sort as individual folders - i.e. no sub folders and contents so that the job is confined to simply sorting alphabetically a finite number of 'Places' within that folder.

The ideal would be something that works the way that Windows Explorer does where a 'Place' saved into a GE folder automatically assumes the correct aphabetical position in the list when the folder is 'closed'.

Perhaps I am expecting too much; if it was simple then I would have expected Google to have incorporated it into their software already.

I am quite willing to act as a trial user.