Google Earth 4.2 - GA feed no longer has icons

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Google Earth 4.2 - GA feed no longer has icons

Post by Justcameron » 02 November 07 2:59 am

When I updated Google Earth to 4.2 (not sure what from) I now no longer get the nice icons for tradition, multi and puzzle caches.

Currently I have something that looks like a shopping bag for all caches except puzzles, which are thunder and lightning I think :-?

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Post by CraigRat » 02 November 07 8:38 am

It looks like Google have changed the icon set...how annoying!!

We'll look in to it.

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Post by riblit » 02 November 07 12:53 pm

CraigRat wrote:It looks like Google have changed the icon set...how annoying!!

We'll look in to it.
again... Maybe we should consider using our own icons as this happens a bit on GW updates, also the icons appear to differ between the mac and PC versions.

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Post by CraigRat » 02 November 07 2:13 pm

riblit wrote:
CraigRat wrote:It looks like Google have changed the icon set...how annoying!!

We'll look in to it.
again... Maybe we should consider using our own icons as this happens a bit on GW updates, also the icons appear to differ between the mac and PC versions.
Good idea!

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Post by riblit » 02 November 07 9:37 pm

I installed the GE update and had a quick gander at the resources, the palette used by the feed has gone.

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Post by Justcameron » 04 December 07 1:02 am

What's the progress on this?

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Post by riblit » 04 December 07 10:18 am

Justcameron wrote:What's the progress on this?
We need an icon set. What are your graphic skills like?

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Post by Justcameron » 04 December 07 3:42 pm

Not great, but in case I want to try anyway, what are the requirements?

ie. dimensions, number of icons, for what cache types, filesize, fie type, can we just use the icons from the old feed? or from geocaching.com?

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Post by riblit » 04 December 07 5:22 pm

Justcameron wrote:Not great, but in case I want to try anyway, what are the requirements?

ie. dimensions, number of icons, for what cache types, filesize, fie type,
The current ones seem to be 64 x 64 pixels, saved as png

I'll grab the cache type list from the code..
Justcameron wrote: can we just use the icons from the old feed? or from geocaching.com?
No, copyright in the gc.com ones is owned by Groundspeak and the google ones by Google. As far as I know, neither company has placed them in the public domain. If we used them without permission we would be infringing their copyright and would be open to a claim for damages.

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Post by riblit » 04 December 07 5:37 pm

Cache List.

We currently show:
Multi
Webcam
Event
Moveable
Locationless
Virtual
Unknown
Letterbox
Archived
Shutterspot


although not all at the same time

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Post by Justcameron » 04 December 07 10:58 pm

The old icons that used to be used are still there (on Google's servers.)

eg. Image

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I had a bit of a mess around with the package icon from Tango. Unfortunately I couldn't get SVG happening for me, so they're on 32x32 at the moment.

Image Image Image

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Post by riblit » 04 December 07 11:29 pm

Justcameron wrote:The old icons that used to be used are still there (on Google's servers.)

eg. Image

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I had a bit of a mess around with the package icon from Tango. Unfortunately I couldn't get SVG happening for me, so they're on 32x32 at the moment.

Image Image Image
The old ones were installed on a users local machine as part of the Google Earth installation. The latest update has removed them.
The current feed relies on the icons being installed on the local machine. Now that Google has removed them, there is a good chance the latest version won't access the old pallette.



You can try if you like by loading the pallette onto your computer.
We have to rewrite the code that generates the data feed to incorporate out own icons, so nothing will happen until the next site update.

I'm browsing the KML documentation, the samples now show the icons being referenced from a server via http, rather than from a local machine.

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Post by riblit » 20 January 08 2:45 pm

The icons are no longer shopping baskets..

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Post by Justcameron » 20 January 08 6:29 pm

Hoorah. The icons don't really make any sense and may take a little time to get used to, but it's better than what it was before :)

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Post by riblit » 20 January 08 7:08 pm

click on one and read the cache type.

flag= trad
martini glass = event
two hills = multi
pink camera = shutterspot
webcam = webcam
sun and cloud = earthcache
! on red = unknown
green whatnot = virtual
road = moveable


I think that's right.

I'll create a kml with one of each later and post a link

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