Ny way to create location data online for Google Earth

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I can only save a KMZ file to my hard drive now. That is very inconvenient when I’m switching different devices. Why doesn’t Google create such a simple feature?

Best Answer

If you created KMZ file from your Google Earth map, you are able to use it in https://www.google.com/maps/d/ where you can deploy it and use it further on the web. And same applies for KMZ files created in My Maps then downloaded and used in Google Earth.

How to import KML/KMZ data to Google My Maps: https://youtu.be/IOaSY6R5RW0?t=13

Related Solutions

Google Maps – Custom Sized Maps with Street Names

The only way I've found to achieve this is by creating an HTML file that creates a huge iframe and loads your Google Maps page inside it:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <iframe width="4000" height="4000" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" 
     marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps">
    </iframe>
  </body>
</html>

Replace http://maps.google.com/maps in the code above with the URL generated in Google Maps when you click the link icon, and then inside Paste HTML to embed in website. Don't copy the entire <iframe ... code, just the src of the generated iframe tag.

This will create a 4000px by 4000px map. Change the width and height parameters above if that's not big enough (or too big). If your browser tries to paginate the map rather than resize it down to one page, try using a screen-capture browser extension to save a screengrab of the entire 4000x4000 page as an image, then print the image file.

A caveat, though: printing a 4000x4000 map on letter paper will produce street names that are far too small to read. In general Google's labels are sized appropriately for the zoom size, which more or less correlates with printing at that size/zoom. To print a larger (in width/height, not zoom level) map and still be able to read the labels, you'll need to print on large paper like a poster.

Google Earth – Create KML File from Google Earth URL

go to My Maps
click on + CREATE A NEW MAP button
copy coordinates from your link 30.0867484,-97.29304982
paste them into the search bar and hit Enter key
optional: zoom in and change to satellite view
click on 3 dots
select Export to KML/KMZ
tick the KML instead of KMZ checkbox and Download