Google Earth 4.2 - GA feed no longer has icons
- KevL
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A couple of related questions.
Mystery/ puzzle caches show up on GC.com with the question mark icon beside the name indicating the correct type, but are labeled unknown at the very top of the page. Any ideas why?
And following on, as most of the 'unknown' caches in Google Earth are actually puzzle/ mystery caches perhaps a more appropriate icon could be a question mark type thing? Is that possible or should I just get used to it.
Kev
Ps
The new icons are a big improvement.
Mystery/ puzzle caches show up on GC.com with the question mark icon beside the name indicating the correct type, but are labeled unknown at the very top of the page. Any ideas why?
And following on, as most of the 'unknown' caches in Google Earth are actually puzzle/ mystery caches perhaps a more appropriate icon could be a question mark type thing? Is that possible or should I just get used to it.
Kev
Ps
The new icons are a big improvement.
- Justcameron
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They are unknown because they are a Puzzle or Mystery, hence the question mark on gc.com - it signifies unknown. The copyright on gc.com icons is owned by gc.com and we don't have permission to use them.KevL wrote:A couple of related questions.
Mystery/ puzzle caches show up on GC.com with the question mark icon beside the name indicating the correct type, but are labeled unknown at the very top of the page. Any ideas why?
And following on, as most of the 'unknown' caches in Google Earth are actually puzzle/ mystery caches perhaps a more appropriate icon could be a question mark type thing? Is that possible or should I just get used to it.
Kev
Ps
The new icons are a big improvement.
The current icons are hosted at maps.google.com as google have moved them there with the later Google Earth release. The idea being that Google maps can read kml files and have the some icons, however the icons render differently when accessed from Google Earth. The traditional icon looks like
when directly accessed. A bit different to the icon displayed when the same URI is accessed from Google Earth.
I didn't find a question mark amongst the icons there so the exclamation mark on red is what you get for the time being.
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- Justcameron
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