KMLZ to Earth Pro

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KMLZ to Earth Pro allows you to view KML and KMZ files on your Android device
using Google Earth with advertising. If you are unable to view a KML or KMZ
file or attachment in Google Earth, then this is the app that you need!

KMLZ to Earth Pro allows you to browse through your local files to select a
KML or KMZ file to display in Google Earth. It also allows you to view your
saved email attachments in Google Earth.

In the Explorer activity, if you browse to a directory containing images with
location information you can also:

* Tap the file icon to view the photo closely
* Tap the file name to create a KMZ file
* Tap "View images to create KMZ" to create a KMZ file with the locations and images from multiple photos

In your email application, save the KML or KMZ file, and then tap it again to
choose to view it with KMLZ to Earth Pro.

Since Google Earth for Android doesn't seem to have published limits on file
sizes, your success with files larger than 4MB may vary. Large files cause
Google Earth to to load slowly, or if they are too large, not display them
entirely. If this occurs, try to reduce the size of the images used or the
number of images selected to create smaller KMZ files.

The size of the images shown in Google Earth decreases progressively as the
total size of images are selected, in order to try to keep the total file size
small enough to view on Google Earth for Android.

When creating a KMZ file, each image containing location information is shown
as a thumbnail, along with the image name, time taken, resolution and size.
Thumbnails can be tapped for a larger preview of the image. All, none, or
individual files can be selected to create a KMZ file from images in one
directory.

DO NOT PUT SPACES OR OTHER STRANGE CHARACTERS IN FILE NAMES! LETTER, NUMBER,
UNDERSCORE, PERIOD, AND HYPHEN CHARACTERS ALLOWED. ANY OTHER CHARACTERS WILL
BE REPLACED WITH UNDERSCORES.

File names must end in ".jpg", ".kml", ".kmz" to be visible to view in KMLZ to
Earth Pro, and capitalization does not matter.

Files that you select to view are copied to the "Home" directory, typically
/mnt/sdcard/kmlz. WARNING! Any file that does not end in ".kml" or ".kmz" will
be deleted automatically from this directory, or when you choose to use Menu,
Clear Home, and confirm.

The Home button will take you quickly to the /mnt/sdcard/kmlz directory (or a
similar path) to see which files you have previously viewed, and view them
again.

This app can't be set as default for any action, if you try, then it will
reset itself. This ensures you the choice of action always and prevents a
possible undesirable loop.

If experiencing problems with Google Earth, use the Menu, Manage Earth, and
either Force Stop, Clear Data, or Clear Cache. Clear Cache is very helpful to
get accurate results if you are testing the same file name multiple times.

Likewise, if experiencing problems with KMLZ to Earth, use the Menu, Manage
KMLZ, and either Force Stop, Clear Data, or Clear Cache.

This application runs a web server on your device at [http://localhost:8001/](
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://localhost:8001/&sa=D&usg
=AFQjCNGxnGZ4gFlHHQ_I0GjhU-GEidCOsQ) to serve pages from it's "Home" directory
to Google Earth. In order to do this, it will have a running process in the
background. A notification will be issued to remind you that this process is
running. If you view the notification, then you can stop this background web
server process. Also, from the application, pressing back will allow you to
terminate the application and the background web server process.

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Last update

Feb. 15, 2013

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