Publish to Google Earth - Text Issue

[SMP]

I am trying to publish some entitys to google earth, some polylines and some text. The polylines are publishing beautifully however the text is not. When i expand the imported KML in the temporary places drop down, it does in fact say there is are tons of text entity there, it is just not displaying it in the picture and i can not zoom to it if i double click on it in the drop down.

 

In Civil, If i check off the button during export to have the text pop up as a Placemark it works pretty good. Only thing that sucks is that there is so many text labels it looks ugly as they are Placemarks and not labels and they are all oriented 90.

 

I want the text to be visible as i have it labelled in my Model Space.

 

Help Anyone?

[Emigrato]

No way, sir: the KML format doesn't support "displayed" text, exactly as well as SHP one: strings are "hidden" in points/placemarks.

 

The only workaround I can imagine of, is to explode your labels to lines (command _TXTEXP) then export the latter ones to GE.

 

[satishrajdev]

Completely agree with Emigrato.... I had same problem, when text is not exporting property export it using _TXTEXP and then publish it to google earth.... That works perfectly

[Emigrato]

Moreover, dear SMP, don't dare to explode Truetype fonts:

 

1] first, set your label style to SIMPLEX.SHX

2] then, apply _TXTEXP to it

 

P.S.

This technique destroys the text content, therefore you'd lose the searchability by text in Google Earth.

That's why I advise to keep both in the same .KML file: either the "stupid" exploded text, and the "clever" placemarks.

 

[SMP]

Ahh yes, text explode. That is the same conclusion i came to. I tried and i really did not like the way it looked. It looked kind of sloppy and incredibly unprofessional to give to a client.

 

They gave us a small extension and my work around that sort of cleaned things up a bit was i added some object data fields to the parcel polygons and put the identifier numbers in those those fields. A little more clean to look at minus the weird name the Civil export give the polygon. But my project manager is much happier with this option. And also a little more billable work which doesn't hurt anyone