Google+Earth-+Placemarks

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Text Directions
1. Position the 3D viewer to contain the spot you want to placemark. Consider zooming into the best viewing level for the desired location. Click the Placemark icon on the toolbar menu at the the top of the screen (see image below). 2. The most important areas to change are highlighted in red in the image below. 3. Edit an existing placemark by right clicking on the placemark in the **Places** area and choose **Properties** (see image below).
 * **Name** the placemark. This is what will appear in Places.
 * **Description**, including HTML text
 * Just type text. Google Earth is like a website, so don't fret about indents. To create paragraphs, surround the text with a ** Sample Text ** (see image below). You don't have to do this if you are just typing text, but you will have problems if you embed a video or some other external object.
 * Copy and paste links and they will appear as clickable (making words clickable requires knowledge of html which is not covered in this tutorial).
 * **Inserting Pictures**: To insert a picture into a placemark, you must use the following format (replace the web address that is listed with the web address for any picture). ****
 * **Embed**: Most web objects that have an embed code can be inserted it into a placemark. Copy and paste the embed code into the placemark.
 * Ignore **Style, Color, View, and Altitude** - They don't matter that much.
 * **(Icon)** - Click the icon for the placemark (top right corner of the dialog box) to choose an alternate icon.
 * Click **OK** to save the placemark.