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August 26, 2007
Google Earth 4.2 - Release notes wanted, new icons
Google still hasn't updated the release notes for the new Google Earth 4.2. So I'm still discovering little things which have been updated in 4.2 from the last beta. We are well aware of some of the big changes like the new Sky and the new 3D photo viewer. But, I'm sure there are lots of smaller changes like the bug which kept the navigation gadget from going away when on automatic in 4.1 is now fixed. Last night, I noticed that the standard icons used for placemarks have changed. They are now more similar in style to the icons used in the layers and in Google My Maps. The image below shows the new choices (if you create a placemark and click on the icon button, this is what you see).
Posted by FrankTaylor at August 26, 2007 08:30 AM
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Posted by: Barry Hunter at August 26, 2007 10:06 AM
These look like the same icons that are used in Google MyMaps (for the most part).
Posted by: Justin at August 26, 2007 10:13 AM
I've just noticed that you can now do directions searches in Thailand, that give you good results with all street names down to very small lanes.
So all of the road data seem to be there, but when the roads layer is turned on the roads are not visible (as they are in Google Maps).
Posted by: Ick of the East at August 26, 2007 10:14 AM
Directions in Thailand are possible since several weeks. The fact of non visible streets also. The old inexact streets disappeared but the new ones didn't appear.
Posted by: Ken at August 26, 2007 11:50 AM
The new icon list has less icons, so it converted many of my icons from two types (airplane and airplane in a circle) into one (airplane). This was a very much unwanted change, as much work had gone into differentiating the two locations in my .kmz file, types of airfields I had visited around the world. Does anyone perchance know how to use a backed up version of the .kmz file to recreate a listing using two different icons for the two types of locations I was tracking?
Thanks for any help.
Posted by: RonlyBonly at November 3, 2007 01:14 PM
The old icons are available still, plus you can add your own custom icons to any KML file. The old icons can be found under windows in this directory:
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth\res\pal2
There are also more in ..\pal3 through ..\pal5
Posted by: Frank Taylor at November 4, 2007 07:27 AM
I do not have a copy of the old pal2,pal3,pal4... in my Program Files folder. When I type the old path http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal2/icon20.png I get the old Icon but when I use that path in my kml in Google Earth I get a different Icon? Where can I get the old Icons?
Posted by: brian barker at April 1, 2008 04:12 PM
Same as Brian case, when I type the old path http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal2/icon20.png in my Firefox I get the old Icon but when I use that path in my kml in Google Earth I get a different Icon?
Is there anybody who knows how to force GE to import the proper one?
Posted by: msek at April 30, 2008 07:03 AM
I Googled "Old Google Earth Icons" and got this URL:
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/phpxml/showIcons.php
:-)
Posted by: Frank Taylor at April 30, 2008 07:51 AM
So what Frank? This doesn't solve the problem.
Seems, the new GE suffer a bug disabling it to refer to http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/*
Posted by: msek at April 30, 2008 08:17 AM
I thought you wanted a copy of the old icons.
You can post your issue with GE 4.3 at the GE support forum: http://groups.google.com/group/earth-free/topics
Posted by: Frank Taylor at April 30, 2008 08:23 AM
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Ah thanks, I thought something was looking different , I just couldn't place it :) I suppose a reminder if you want to keep a particular icon you should take a copy rather than just use the ones supplied!