Comments on: The KML Screen Overlay Maker Utility

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:58:15 +0000

I don’t own a Mac, and it was written in Visual Basic for Windows, so a Mac version is unlikely. But you can create the overlay on a PC, save the overlay from Google Earth on the PC as a KMZ file, and then open it up on Google Earth in Mac.

This is actually a very simple program, but adding text would be very complicated. So probably not anytime soon.

By: SHaron CArlson

SHaron CArlson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:15:36 +0000

WOW!!! This would work great for our use in broadcasting Google Earth on television. Would you be able to make the app available for Macintosh? I’ve tried it with our PC and love it but we work on Macs to do our on-air graphics. Also a great feature would be to add text over the overlay.

By: Astronaut Mode For Google Earth | Google Earth Flight Simulator Non Official blog

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:20:00 +0000

[...] every day with Google Earth). A couple tips on creating screen overlays: KML documentation, or a free application on making them by FreeGeographyTools. Author: admin Time: Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 2:11 [...]

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:06:53 +0000

Thanks for the info. I suspect that you’re getting that error message because the program looks for Internet Explorer in the default location (”C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”) to open the website, and if it doesn’t find it there, it gets “confused”. Do you have Internet Explorer installed on a drive other than the C:-drive, or in a different program directory?

By: geofumadas

geofumadas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:38:16 +0000

me again, if release double click on the link, this is the message: error 53, file not found

By: geofumadas

geofumadas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:28:36 +0000

Great application, the link is broken (the link to freegeographytools), in double click shows a message “file not found”

best regards.