Extension talk:KML Export

Question for anyone who can help
I love this and it is working great. The only question I had is how do I get pictures to show up in the balloons on GE? I've tried several methods and nothing seems to work. I usually just get the grey or black box in the window. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

--Mfinney 00:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello Mfinney,
 * I never tried to put an image inside the description of a placemark. I just checked, and it seems that MediaWiki doesn't translate images URLs properly. KML Export installs some specific code which translates URLs like "/Article" (which would be invalid on Google Earth) to " http://yourwiki/Article ". Thanks to your report I found that this code is not called when MediaWiki generates image references. I'll look for a fix for the next version of KML Export (which will take some months to be released, since I'm pretty busy right now), but as a workaround, you may just put the full URL of the image into the description. Instead of " [[Image:Xxx.png]] ", write just " http://yourwiki/images/Xxx.png ".
 * Best regards, --Juliano 19:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have a working example of images inside KML markers here. See the [locations http://www.melpedia.com.au/wiki/Template:Infobox_Location] template for how I did it Rodeoclash 11:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

KML Export Encoded?
Any idea why my KML export is being encoded?

http://www.melpedia.com.au/wiki/Special:KMLExport/Bars

It was working fine a few days ago... Rodeoclash 11:33, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Ignore this, incorrect use of the extension caused it.