I have been reading/learning a lot from this forum topics THANKS
I have down loaded Goggle Earth and have played around with downloading photos onto a Garmin 62 into a Custom Map folder. I went onto Goggle Earth today and tried to do it again and get a message picture size is to big and will not load onto my GPS. When I look at the size of the HMZ file it shows only 1 kb. The current pictures I have on the GPS show 275-310 kb. Funny thing is when I look at the 1 kb file and right click and check the folder properties, show approx 300 kb +/-. I can't even load a picture that I have saved with the Goggle as a personal place.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong??
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If your KMZ file is truly 1 KB, I'm guessing it doesn't have the JPG inside it. Are you following the instructions on this page?
http://www.garmin.com/us/products/onthetrail/custommaps#fragment-2
Garmin GPSr will only read KMZ files with JPG 'tiles' that are smaller than 1 MB. Is your KMZ actually 1 MB (1024 KB)?
Dave
I have been playing with this and figured out whats going on I think. If I create a new picture and do the process it works fine. Once you turn the program off and reload it, the photos I have saved, if I try and load these, it down loads the photo as a internet short cut, must be trying to load as a world photo. I think this explains the 1 kb file size and then the buried 275 kb phot in it? I'm not that good on computers "language"
Hmmm, that sounds odd. If you follow the instructions linked in my post above, the JPG picture file should be within the KMZ file - not 'downloaded as a link.' There is no way you could have a 275 KB picture inside a 1 KB KMZ file. Not sure how to help...