Good examples of this service are shown below, with the download and installation instructions further down. Here at Cannes Airport, France, you can clearly see the runways, terminal, viewing areas, hotels, the preserved Beech 18 and a couple of markers to help you navigate the smaller roads round the terminal area to get views of the ramp. The blue path from the terminal to the southside viewing areas and hotel is the route you need to travel by car. You can zoom in a lot closer than shown, or you can zoom out to show an overall view of the airports in this file. On the left side of the Google Maps screen shot you can see the various different placemarks for Cannes Airport. Clicking on one will highlight on the main map. Scrolling up and down in the left hand section will reveal all the other airports that are plotted on Google Maps. Looking now at the Google Earth screenshot, on the left side of this screenshot you see a little over half the airports available in the France file - once the file has been loaded into Google Earth, scrolling up and down in this section will reveal all the other airports.
KEY:
Green stars - Viewing areas
Yellow stars - Preserved/stored aircraft
Beds - Hotels and Resorts
Blue paths and pins - routes to viewing areas
R - Runways
M - Museums
T - Terminals
H - Hangars
A - Aprons
Cameras - Photo spots
White - Points of interest for guidance
All the information plotted is available in text form on the main page and should be used with these plottings.
Downloading and installing the file into Google Maps:
Once payment has been confirmed you will be sent an email with instructions on how to download the Spain file. Please add krayzeekris@hotmail.com to your Safe Senders list to ensure it isn't diverted into your Junk/Spam folders. Visit the website in the email or click the link provided and enter your email address used in the transaction (this is in the email). Also in the same email is your password to access your newly purchased file - you must copy this exactly or highlight, copy and paste. Now you can log in and download your file. Once the Spain file has been downloaded you can save it to any folder you wish. Visit Google Maps and sign in using your Google Groups and/or Google Mail email address and password. If you haven't registered with Google before, it's free, quick and easy to do. Once logged in, click 'My Maps' near the top left of the screen - it's in the horizontal light blue bar. Click 'Create New Map' below it and then click 'Import' - located next to where Create New Map was previously. A box will now appear asking you to import map data from a KML file. Click browse and you will now need to locate the folder you have saved your downloaded file in. Click it to highlight it, and then click 'Open'. Now click 'Upload From File' and wait as the map is filled with all the placemarks. The information displayed on the main Spain webpage is as up to date as the information I receive or from my own personal trips, it is correct to the best of my knowledge and it is this information that I have placed into Google Maps to help you plan your trip. If you can update, amend or add anything please email me.
Downloading and installing the file into Google Earth:
If you have already downloaded and installed the file into Google Maps, please skip to the paragraph below as you only need to download it once. Otherwise, read on. Once payment has been confirmed you will be sent an email with instructions on how to download the Spain file. Please add krayzeekris@hotmail.com to your Safe Senders list to ensure it isn't diverted into your Junk/Spam folders. Visit the website in the email or click the link provided and enter your email address used in the transaction (this is in the email). Also in the same email is your password to access your newly purchased file - you must copy this exactly or highlight, copy and paste. Now you can log in and download your file. Once the Spain file has been downloaded you can save it to any folder you wish.
Load up Google Earth and click 'File' and then click 'Open'. You will then need to locate the folder you have saved your downloaded file in, click it to highlight it, and then click 'Open'. The Spain file will now appear in the 'Places' section in the left hand section of Google Earth. At the moment, it's showing under the 'Temporary Places' folder - this means that each time you load up Google Earth you will have to open the Spain file manually, as described above. If you would like the Spain file to always show all the placemarks automatically, you will need to move the file up into the 'My Places' folder. To do this, click and hold the Spain file, drag the mouse upwards until it is over 'My Places' and release the mouse button. Now click 'File', move the mouse to highlight 'Save' and a new menu will appear to the side. Click 'Save My Places' and this will always display the Spain locations. Please note this file has been created using Google Maps and Google Earth version 5. Whilst this file will work with Google Earth version 4, I strongly recommend that you upgrade for free to the latest version, as using version 4 will mean that a couple of placemarks will be slightly away from where they are meant to be. This is unavoidable but their correct position will be obvious. In the unlikely event that one of these incorrect placemarks is a hotel, it could give you a misleading idea of where it is in relation to the airport. Regardless of what version of Google Earth you use, the information displayed on the main Spain webpage is as up to date as the information I receive or from my own personal trips, it is correct to the best of my knowledge and it is this information that I have placed into Google Earth to help you plan your trip. If you can update, amend or add anything please email me.
Version 1 Released 08/11/09 contains all 36 locations listed with viewing locations, hotels and preserved aircraft where known:
Alicante
Barcelona
Barcelona-Sant Cugat del Valles
Benissalem, Mallorca
Bellvei
Casarrubios
Catral
El Berriel, Gran Canaria
Fuerteventura
Ibiza
Igualada-Odena
La Axarquia-Leoni Benabu
Lanzarote
Las Palmas
Lluchmajor, Mallorca
Lluchmajor-Ctra. de Palma-Santanyi, Mallorca
Los Garranchos
Madrid-Barajas
Madrid-Cuatro Vientos
Madrid-Getafe
Madrid-Torrejon
Malaga
Menorca-Mahon
Mutxamel
Ocana
Palma de Mallorca
Reus
Sabadell
Santa Cruz de Tenerife-Museo Militar de Almeido
Ses Salines
Sevilla
Son Bonet
Tenerife Norte-Los Rodeos
Tenerife Sur-Reina Sofia
Valencia
Vilanova i la Geltru
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