Re: Google Earth info/request for Merrill Webb

["M. H. Wallace" <pooder at xmission dot com>]

Might I respectfully request that BirdTalkers not start using 
exclusively gps coordinates.  If you do use gps, please also include 
non-digital location information.  Not everyone is using the latest gps 
gizmo.

Matthew Wallace.

John Morgan wrote:

> Merrill,
> Is it possible to configure the birdtalk list-serv so it will accept 
> these Google Earth placemarker attachments? Each placemarker file (.kmz) 
> is only 444k in size. If that is possible, birders would no longer need 
> to include directions to their sightings. Does the server have enough 
> drive space to support/archive the added overhead this would create?
>
> I've not yet found a way to cut/paste GPS coordinates to and from the 
> application. Though it appears GPS devices can be connected to the 
> user's machine and coordinates followed, it doesn't appear that there is 
> any way to type in GPS coordinates at text. Bummer. Looks like these 
> placemarker files are the only way you can share a location.
> Thanks,
> John
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