KML Watermarks

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KML Watermarks are new in FME 2008, and provide our users with a simple way to brand their KML. The watermarks consist of:

1. A shiny icon that will be displayed in the lower left hand corner
2. A name for the watermark
3. A small bit of descriptive text. I.e. the `snippet'.

Example

This example workspace generates this kml dataset.

All watermark configuration is done in the KML21 dataset's advanced settings:

The resulting view in Google Earth:

Technical Details

Under the hood, the KML21 writer is creating a ScreenOverlay feature, and assigning the above values to the kml_icon, kml_name format, and kml_snippet format attributes.

If you want to create more elaborate `watermarks' of your own, you can manually create your own ScreenOverlay features.