Re: KMZ generator on Android phone and tablet Checksite
Posted by
chris-hopkinson@hotmail.co.uk on
URL: http://maprun.308.s1.nabble.com/KMZ-generator-on-Android-phone-and-tablet-Checksite-tp415p431.html
Hi Peter.
I have answered in blue below.
I have just tried again on my phone with a local location, no file attachment, just a reference to it in the email. If I generate a KMZ on the tablet and save to my Google drive, I can attach and send to myself on an email, then just change to a KMZ manually.
A bit of a faf, but it sorts it.
In essence.
- On the laptop, I save the Ordinance Survey as a jpg, and send it to the tablet by email.
- Save the JPG and use it to generate the KMZ with Google Earth, and save to the storage.
- I then email the KMZ to myself manually and change to a .KMZ.
- On the laptop I then produce the Checksites map through the website.
Phew, it's a way round it!
I need to link my GDrive into the laptop, may shorten things a bit, I try to avoid too many cloud drives.
Chris
Chris,
Two things
1. If you don't email yourself the KMZ, it is working OK in MapRunF? (ie checking that the file is being produced ok).
If I produce the KMZ on my phone, it saves it to the "access local events" and worked fine today when I did a course check.
2. If you receive an attachment with the email, maybe something is stripping off the extension. Can you save the file and rename it to include .kmz ?
I changed the extension to .KMZ and it worked.
On the phone I send to Hotmail, and I have tried it to Gmail too. It stripped the KMZ away in hotmail, and also now in Gmail.
What phone and email client are you using?
The phone is a Samsung Galaxyy A3, so a small screen! the tablet is a Samsung SM-T310 running Android 4.4.2.
Peter
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