multiple image script

I am a FireFighter. Currently we are establishing a pre-plan program for our initial operations. Part of doing this is creating a google earth view of each address point. I have roughly 6500 images to take. As you can appreciate I DON'T want to do this by hand. So I am looking for a way to automate the process. I have the address for each and the LAt/Lon for them. I am looking to save the images as pdf files. Any ideas?

Bryan

Sounds like a biggy Bryan.

Not only is it going to take you forever to capture and save 6500 images, but file size is going to be your enemy.

Is there any way you could embed Google Earth into your program and use those resources to pull up the images of the properties live on GE ?    would save a lot of work and time.

Cheers and good luck.

I wish I could do that. No way to embed it that I know of. File size is not really a big deal. Each address has its own folder where it has its stuff.

Hmmm, I don't know of any other way to do what you want.

How about seeing as each location has it's own folder you save the image in it's placemark description so that everything in the .kmz opens in GE, shows the image and flies to the address.

Best I can think of although it doesn't automate your process.

I'll ask and snoop around to see if there is a way maybe using .csv files or excel.

One for Tek, me thinks

I like such tasks but little help from me this time. Let me put my reply. I am not able to test what I'll say because my laptop was not able to resist more and went to service. These are my loud thinking.

I think the best way to do that is to follow the advice by nostranger. An automated or semi-automated process can be done by coding a plugin in order to take screenshots. However that's something beyond my skills. Google may not be happy with such a plugin either. A Google Earth admin's, I don't remember who he was, reply in the past to someone attempting to create plugins makes me think so.

The only way I can think of, in addition to nostranger, has some risks and needs some tests to be carried out. It depends on whether, with our new Google realities, a Map can be embedded in a web page. Anyone, is it still possible? If yes, since a PDF file is the outcome desired, and since an HTML file can be converted to a PDF file, Maps (instead of images) can be included in the project file.

But can the converter convert a Maps frame that is included in a page? And what is the maximum number the converter can handle? I am not one of those who knows the answer.

I have the points I need as both straight up addresses and X,Y. I was hoping for a script, or batch file. All my points exist in a spreadsheet now, with all the associated data. A VB script or something should do this I would think.

If you prefer each address point to be in its own kml, I doubt there is a script creating a kml for each row. If you can't find any and have time, I can within a few days add an option for that to xls2kml here.
To eliminate misunderstandings, let me repeat that you'll need to manually save every snapshot if you want to embed the satellite imagery into the pdf file. Alternatively, you can add links to the kml files created by the vba, instead of embedding the images to the pdf file.