How to launch Google Earth plugin within Chrome

I have the Google Earth plugin installed and it seems to work fine.

What I would like to do is open a KML file (exported from MyTracks on Android) in it.

But, I can find no option to open the KML file, or launch the GE plugin.

Is this possible ?

Solution

To launch the plugin take a look at the 'Using the Google Earth Api' section in the developer's guide.

For loading KML files, take a look at the following documentation https://developers.google.com/earth/documentation/kml

It give examples of how to fetchKml and parseKml as well as linking to a working example.

var href = 'http://code.google.com/'
               + 'apis/earth/documentation/samples/kml_example.kml';

google.earth.fetchKml(ge, href, function(kmlObject) {
  if (kmlObject) {
    ge.getFeatures().appendChild(kmlObject);
  }
});

You can also use a KmlNetworkLink to load the data again the document links to a working example of this.

var link = ge.createLink('');
var href = 'http://code.google.com/'
           + 'apis/earth/documentation/samples/kml_example.kml'
link.setHref(href);

var networkLink = ge.createNetworkLink('');
networkLink.set(link, true, true); // Sets the link, refreshVisibility, and flyToView

ge.getFeatures().appendChild(networkLink);