I’m trying to create a custom icon to display on google earth. It resides on my local filesystem, and I’m trying to reference it as “file:/C:/myfile.png” but it does not display. Is this possible to do?
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I’m trying to create a custom icon to display on google earth. It resides on my local filesystem, and I’m trying to reference it as “file:/C:/myfile.png” but it does not display. Is this possible to do?
You need to package the KML and the icons together into a KMZ archive (which is just a zip).
See my answer in your other question .