How does one export a "placemark" from Google Earth?

[RoelfleRoux]

Please help - I have created a whole series of "placemarks" in Google Earth and would love to export those to one of the Microsoft Office programs or even better to BaseCamp.

Can it be done?
I'm sure it must be possible - but how?

Thanks
Roelf

[KaiV]

Its a bit of a mission, but what you can do is send each of the placemarks to yourself. It creates a *.kmz file.

hope that helps

[RoelfleRoux]

Thanks,

Will give it a go this weekend

R

[4ePikanini]

right click on it in the left pane and "save as"

Then download a kml/kmz to gdb converter (plenty online available for free)

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/

[4ePikanini]

http://www.expertgps.com/convert.asp

[4ePajero]

One of the 'arts' you have to master in Google Earth is to manage the 'folder' structure of all your entities (place marks, paths, polygons etc).
It is very similar to a Windows folder structure.

Any new entity will be created as a 'child' of the entity currently highlighted.
(Well almost always! GE sometimes does funny things when you add an entity).

Not to worry if it is created in a position you don't intend/want!
If an entity ends up in the wrong place, you can move it by clicking and holding down the left mouse button, then dragging the entity around in the folder structure.
Experiment with this to see the options.
Take note of how the entity changes in the folder structure (whilst being dragged) - from a box to lines of different lengths.
The box indicates that it will be added to the entity over which you hold it.
The line indicates where it will be inserted. Notice how the left side of the line changes position, to indicate where it will be inserted.

Play around to get the feel of the (not so friendly) user interface.

Once you have organized your entities, you can save it to either a kml or a kmz file.
(They are the same, except that the kmz file is a zipped version of the kml file, and thus smaller).
I use kml, because I speak kml like native and can edit it to suit.

To save the file, right click on the entity (and it's descendants) you want to save.
Choose / type / browse the file name, and choose the format (kml/kmz).

Use one of the utilities which Marius posted to convert the kml file to whatever you want.

[RoelfleRoux]

The Fourie gents,

Thank you for taking the time to create some valuable feedback.

Thank you also for ruining my Super Rugby viewing and Monaco GP as I'll be needing the whole weekend to get this GE thing sorted out in practice

[RoelfleRoux]

This post to close the loop.

The Google Earth points I created were saved as KML files. I then imported those files to Basecamp and then exported them from Basecamp to my Garmin NUVI 500 GPS.

Thanks for all the help,
Roelf