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Things I'm Learning: Adding Text Encoded Images to Google Earth (Pro and Web)

 This project has been going on for a while, but remember, the point of the elevation profile project was to add the elevation profile between our ham radio—Project TouCans—and the receiving station at the other end of a QSO to the map of the QSO itself. This week, I finally got to start work on the maps themselves, and I've found a few things.

First, an image added to a Placemark description without a 

width="100%"

tag will overflow the pane that Google Earth Web creates for the Placemark


A user can scroll the chart horizontally, but theOh  information isn't all visible at once.

Adding the width tag back in fixes the issue on Google Earth Web, but leaves Google Earth Pro with a very small chart



I thought a good compromise between the two might be to house the image in its own div. For Google Earth Web we get


but on Google Earth Pro we still get the tiny chart:


It seems the only way to get this done will be to learn the new Google Earth kml 'Carousel' extension shown here from the Jane Goodall example:


The dream would be to get something like the following from the example



But! Oh No! When I open the Jane Goodall example in Google Earth Pro, instead of seeing the above, I see


The pictures are gone!!!

So! It looks like a Datasette plugin for Google Earth Pro and a separate plugin (or at least a selectable option) for Google Earth Web are what I'm going to need to do to be able to function on both platforms. 


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