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PCigales authored Feb 8, 2024
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Installation (options are exclusive and if merged the first available one in the order of their numbering will be selected):
- for use in Google Earth Desktop, copy "kml.bat" (generation of kml file) and/or "kmz.bat" (generation of kmz file) and "viewer.htm" (and only these files at this stage) in "C:\Users\\...\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth" where "..." must be replaced by the name of the account
- for use in Google Earth Android, copy "kml-andro.bat" (generation of kml file) and/or "kmz-andro.bat" (generation of kmz file) (and only these files at this stage) in "C:\Users\\...\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth" where "..." must be replaced by the name of the account
- option 1 = use Windows Presentation Foundation for thumbnail generation and metadata extraction (simplest, requires Windows Powershell 5 installed by default with Windows >=7, or, a bit faster, Powershell >=7 that needs to be installed through amongst several ways "winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget"): copy "kmlz.ps1" (for use in Google Earth Desktop) and/or "kmlz-andro.ps1" (for use in Google Earth Android) in "C:\Users\\...\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth"
- option 1 = use Windows Presentation Foundation for thumbnail generation and metadata extraction (simplest, requires Windows Powershell 5 installed by default with Windows >=7, or, a bit faster, Powershell >=7 that needs to be installed through amongst several ways "winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget"):
* copy "kmlz.ps1" (for use in Google Earth Desktop) and/or "kmlz-andro.ps1" (for use in Google Earth Android) in "C:\Users\\...\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth"
- option 2 = use Windows Imaging Component directly for thumbnail generation and metadata extraction (a bit faster):
* install Python
* copy "kmlz.py" (for use in Google Earth Desktop) and/or "kmlz-andro.py" (for use in Google Earth Android) in "C:\Users\\...\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth"
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