Start up Google Earth
Create a new folder
Go to a location
Create a new Placemark and add to folder
Edit the Placemark
Save the Folder as kml (kmz is zipped kml)
View the saved file in a text editor.
Edit the description of a Placemark in this file
Load the modified kml file
Place the kml file in your public-html directory
Reference this file from a browser (Firefox)
This should link to GE and display the overlay
Get the PHP code to convert from a Place name to a kml file working
you need a xml file like this http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/%7Ecjwallac/apps/phpxml/places.xml to hold the plaes and their lat and long
and the PHP code - create from the handout
Get it working
Add another location to the xml file and test
Get the latitude and longitude from Mikals geocoding service rather than from stored data e.g.
http://brainoff.com/geocoder/rest/?city=Bristol,UK
You will need to use namespaces to get the geo data and the code to access this service via the proxy. Both are covered in workshop 1