Google Earth TutorialsPart II – Creating Basic Placemarks

Hosts – Thomas Cooper, Alice Barr

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Placemarks Visualize Information

• Text• Images• Web Links• Video• Audio• Icons• Slides• Documents• Navigation

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Data Layers Contain Placemarks

• Over 206 layers in the primary data base

• Major ones: roads, traffic, weather, Wikipedia, National Geographic, and global awareness.

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Creating Basic Placemarks

Directions1. Find the location on

earth you want the placemark.

2. Click on the yellow push pin in the toolbar

3. Name the placemark4. Enter the text you

want to visualize.5. Press OK.

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Editing Placemarks

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Directions1. Right click on the placemark in the

Places panel2. Choose properties from the menu3. Placemark will open, allowing you

to add information.

Hint: In order to change the location of a placemark, you need to have the properties box open.

Organize Placemarks within Folders

Directions1. Go to the “Places” panel2. Right-click on “My Places”

icon3. Add >> Folder4. Name the folder5. Click and drag any

placemarks you have crated into that folder

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Adding Text

Directions1. Right click on the

placemark2. Go to properties3. Type in the text you

want4. Use HTML tags to

organize text

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Text Header Tags

• <h1>text</h1> - Largest

• <h2>text</h2>• <h3>text</h3>• <h4>text</h4>• <h5>text</h5>• <h6>text</h6> -

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Aligning Text

• <p align="left"> This text will be aligned left</p>

• <p align = "center"> This text will be centered </p>

• <p align = "right"> This text will be aligned right</p>

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Images Need to Be Online

• GE uses XHTML code to refer to an image stored online.

• Use photosharing sites to store your photos: Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Album, Photobucket, or a Wiki

Working with Images

• Main Image Tag– <img src=“imagename.jpg”

height=“#” width=“#” align=“position”)

• Dimensions <height=n width=n>– Height and width of image

• Alignment <align=“center”>– Places image on page, either left,

center or right)

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Anatomy of a Tag

• Open Tags and Closed Tags– Open Tag <tag> and Close Tag </tag>

• Tags are nested• Three parts of a tag: (tag, attribute, value)• Example– <img src=“filename.jpg” height=100 width=100>

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Adding Web Links

• Main Tag Structure<a href=“website.html”>Link

Text</a>

Web Link

Working with Email Links

For information on an Everest climbing trip <a href="mailto:edmund.hillary@explorersclub.org?subject=Information Desired on Mount Everest Climbing Expedition">contact me</a>.

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Email Link

Working with Lists

<b> Equipment List</b><ul> unordered list (or)<ol> ordered list (1., 2., 3.)<li>list item one<li>list item two</ul> or </ol>

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Use Rulers to Separate Page Elements

• <hr>• No closing tag

necessary• Can be set to a specific

length – <hr width=“pixels”>– <hr width=“300”>

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Saving Your WorkDirections1. Click and drag found

places into the folder you created

2. Make sure the folder is checked.

3. Collapse the folder4. Highlight the folder by

clicking on it.5. Go to File >> Save As >>

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Next Session

• Monday Nov. 23rd 8 pm EST• Google Earth Geometry• Topics: Points, Paths, & Polygons

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