Which products are affected? Google Earth
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a placemark in Google Earth (either from the search window in GE
or by rolling your own KML file). It should be a point. For example, you
can use "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500".
2. Right-click the pushpin and to change the icon.
3. Add the custom icon with this URL:
"http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal2/icon11.png".
4. If you look at the icon in GE, it is a solid orange building. If you
look at the same url from a browser, it is a completely different icon (a
smaller, white building).
Note: if you enter that URL in the location bar of GE's internal browser,
you'll get the white building too.
What is the expected output or behavior? What do you see instead?
GE should display a white building because that is what the actual file is.
I've copied that file to my local machine and verified it is indeed a white
building; however, it shows up in GE as an orange one.
What application versions (if any) are you using?
Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731
Which operating systems (and/or relevant web browsers) are affected?
Win XP w/ SP3
Please provide any additional information (code snippets/links) below.
This happens with several other icons from the
http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/* directories. I suppose once this
problem is tracked down, it will fix all of the problems.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by muirca...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 6:02
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
muirca...@gmail.comon 18 Mar 2010 at 6:02