Comments on: Google Earth embedded tour player

By: Jim Manley

Jim Manley — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:25:47 +0000

Thanks for tip, information, background, everything! I did a bit of experimentation today on my blog. I found that the Jimmy Buffet tour without sound works very well indeed. When I set up the full *.kmz file (over 8 megs), the sound sucked up all of the resources. Good sound, too, and very loud! So I’ve not posted that version or any version which would appear to lock up one’s computer. I did keep the Buffet Tour without sound and it works very well. The *.kmz file for it is a lean 78K. It’s on my blog above. I’m very interested in apps that enable people to explore and then share their explorations. The Touring feature is a natural! Best, Jim Manley

By: Noel Jenkins

Noel Jenkins — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:25:51 +0000

It’s definitely KMZ only Jim. I got the same error first time and it was down to incorrectly entering the full path to the KMZ file.

By: Jim D

Jim D — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:34 +0000

Noel, I can’t get this to work for me. I’ve saved my tour as both kmz and kml, uploaded it, copied the URL, and when I try the ETP gadget I get a KML error message. Any ideas on what I did wrong?

By: OllieBray

OllieBray — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:21:50 +0000

Very, very cool! Nice work and another great gadget from Google. See you soon. OB