
Tweak Earth's settings to "view->show time->never" or This means that only the first data point will be displayed. The time slider defaults to the far left position and fully closed. Points that contain time or almost any track data) this will be important If you're using data that has timestamps (e.g. Earth's "time slider" feature controls what timestamped data Google Earth 4.0 and later have a feature that can surprise users of thisįormat. GPSBabel handles simple KML on read fairly well, but if you're dealing with handcrafted KML that uses extensive features that have no analog in other formats like nested folders, ringgeometry, camera angles, and such, don't expect GPSBabel to do well with them on read. In general, GPSBabel's KML writer is relatively strong.

Google Earth also uses GPSBabel internally for receiver communicationsĪnd several file format imports and exports. GPSBabel represents internally as tracks) work fine. Simple files with waypoints and paths (which Reading suchįiles with GPSBabel - even if your goal it to write it back out as KML - can often KML files may have tiered "Styles" whichĬan identify sizing info and URLs of associated icons.

Ideas of camera views and names and descriptions can have arbitrarilyĬomplicated HTML in them. Read because they don't map well into other programs. There are concepts in KML that GPSBabel can't support very well on KML, the Keyhole Markup Language format, was used by Keyhole and is used by This format has the following options: deficon, lines, points, line_width, line_color, floating, extrude, track, trackdata, trackdirection, units, labels, max_position_points, rotate_colors, prec.
