Contains an element specifying a sound file to play, in MP3, M4A, or AAC format. It does not contain a duration. The sound file plays in parallel to the rest of the tour, meaning that the next tour primitive takes place immediately after the tour primitive is reached. If another sound file is cued before the first has finished playing, the files are mixed. The element specifies to delay the start of the sound for a given number of seconds before playing the file.
pause
Contains a single element, allowing the tour to be paused until a user takes action to continue the tour.
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The camera remains still, at the last-defined gx:AbstractView, for the number of seconds specified before playing the next gx:TourPrimitive. Note that a wait does not pause the tour timeline - currently-playing sound files and animated updates will continue to play while the camera is waiting.
Extends
This element is an extension of the OGC KML 2.2 standard and is supported in Google Earth 5.2 and later. Learn more
Syntax
clampToGround
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Description
A track describes how an object moves through the world over a given time period. This feature allows you to create one visible object in Google Earth (either a Point icon or a Model) that encodes multiple positions for the same object for multiple times. In Google Earth, the time slider allows the user to move the view through time, which animates the position of the object.
A gx:MultiTrack element is used to collect multiple tracks into one conceptual unit with one associated icon (or Model) that moves along the track. This feature is useful if you have multiple tracks for the same real-world object. The Boolean element of a specifies whether to interpolate between the tracks in a multi-track. If this value is 0, then the point or Model stops at the end of one track and jumps to the start of the next one. (For example, if you want a single placemark to represent your travels on two days, and your GPS unit was turned off for four hours during this period, you would want to show a discontinuity between the points where the unit was turned off and then on again.) If the value for is 1, the values between the end of the first track and the beginning of the next track are interpolated so that the track appears as one continuous path.
See the Google Earth User Guide for information on how to import GPS data into Google Earth.
Why are tracks useful?
Earlier versions of KML (pre–Google Earth 5.2) allow you to associate a time element with any Feature (placemark, ground overlay, etc.). However, you could only associate one time element with a given Feature. Tracks are a more efficient mechanism for associating time data with visible Features, since you create only one Feature, which can be associated with multiple time elements as the object moves through space.
In addition, the track element is more powerful than the earlier mechanism (described in the Time and Animation chapter of the KML Developer's Guide) because