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Add a $[coordinates] feature to <balloonstyle> #410

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Which products are relevant to this feature request?

Google Earth - All

What should this feature enhancement do?

Allow the display of the coordinates of placemark in a balloon window. This may 
not seem like something worthwhile to the end user, because they can get the 
coordinates by right clicking and finding properties, or based on where their 
mouse pointer is. However, this will allow for developers to do interesting 
things. There is currently no way to get the coordinates of the current 
balloon. Take the following situation:

A user has a kml file with many placemarks that were generated by a mySQL 
database. He wants to move one of these placemarks to a different location, 
using the Google Earth client interface. He moves the placemark, clicks on the 
placemark to display the balloon and presses an update button. The new 
coordinates are automatically placed in the link at the end of the url 
(http://myserver.com/move.php?coordinates=$[coordinates]).

There are tutorials for the GE plugin that explain how to do the exact thing I 
just described... and the tutorial states how useful this functionality is. 
Here is the tutorial: 
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlinfo.html#CreatingMap  

Are there any currently known workarounds that produce the same, or
similar, result?

Not that I am aware of. The GE plugin has eventlisteners to add this ability, 
however, the Google Earth client has no support for this, which seems strange 
to me. Balloonstyle has support for all these  $[name], $[description], 
$[address], $[id], $[Snippet] but no support for $[coordinates] ? If there are 
any workarounds, I would like to know about them.

Right now, the only way I can have a user move a placemark around and save it 
to the database is by tweaking the <viewFormat> in network link to have the 
user move to the new location and center it in the screen, then click an update 
link and have it send the <viewFormat> lookatLat and lookatLong info in the url.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Reno...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 8:29