Comments on: Embed Voice Annotation In Google Earth Placemarks

By: jasper

jasper — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:35:00 +0000

Sorry, didn’t correctly add code snippet:

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By: jasper

jasper — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:32:25 +0000

Tried that as well… even though I knew it wouldn’t make a difference :-) Within the kmz/kml file is the following code which calls the mp3 player:

However this part is taken out of the description when importing into Google Maps. I know I can achieve this using the Google Maps API, however I want to make it part of a tutorial for students and so want to keep the workflow as easy as possible. Google Maps only seems to allow embedding Google Video or YouTube. Now all the media I would like to be able to add is photos (link from Picasa, Flickr is no problem), video (YouTube will do), audio (could turn into movie and use YouTube but looking for something better) and slideshows (like from SlideShare, for which I can really not think of an alternative)…
So more suggestion? ;-)

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:12:31 +0000

Try saving it as a KMZ file, and see if that works.

By: jasper

jasper — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:59:14 +0000

Neat trick. Works fine in Google Earth. However when I try exporting as kml and importing into Google Maps it leaves out the code. I have the same problem when trying to embed an audio file into a marker in Google Maps directly. Any suggestions or work arounds?

Thx,
Jasper

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:09:41 +0000

Did you go to the website linked in my post, and copy the code text from there? As I note in my post, copying the code directly from my post won’t work.

By: silvia

silvia — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:58:13 +0000

i tried to use your instructions but if i paste the code it deosnt work at all

could you help me please!
i’m running an art project using googlemaps and i’d like to add vocarro files

cheers

silvia