How sending coordinates to Google Earth works

When you send chart items to Google Earth, Analyst's Notebook starts Google Earth. Google Earth zooms to the mapped items, which are shown as placemarks. Google Earth also lists the chart and the mapped items in the Temporary Places folder in the Places panel.

Relevant chart item properties are used as placemark properties:

  • The entity or link label becomes the name of the placemark.
  • The Analyst's Notebook icon is used as the placemark icon.
  • Your coordinates are displayed as longitude and latitude values.
  • The description is displayed as the placemark description.
  • For entities, the card summary is displayed if the card contains coordinates. For links, card summaries and descriptions are never displayed.

Analyst's Notebook saves placemark information in a temporary file, and it is this file that is sent to Google Earth. When you close Google Earth, all Analyst's Notebook placemarks are lost unless you move them to the Google Earth My Places folder, for example by saving.

Note: When you send further items to Google Earth from the same chart, you are prompted to reload the temporary file. Click Yes to continue or No to cancel. Alternatively, you can choose to disable this prompt in Google Earth.