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kml: styleUrl

When a <Style> is defined with an id, this id can be referred to within a <styleUrl> tag. Thus, it is possible to apply the same style to various Geomotry objects.

The following example has one <LineStyle> whose id is tq84-style. This line style defines the color and the width for a line. The three lines (<Placemark>…</Placemark>) refer to this style and consequently look alike.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<Document><name>styleUrl.kml</name>

  <Style id="tq84-style">
    <LineStyle>
      <color>ff0055ff</color>
      <width>5</width>
    </LineStyle>
  </Style>

  <Placemark>
    <name>Line one</name>
    <styleUrl>#tq84-style</styleUrl>
    <LineString>
      <tessellate>1</tessellate>
      <coordinates>
        8.465677121380306,47.41193484288755,0
        8.532733060308415,47.39736760135143,0
      </coordinates>
    </LineString>
  </Placemark>

  <Placemark>
    <name>Line two</name>
    <styleUrl>#tq84-style</styleUrl>
    <LineString>
      <tessellate>1</tessellate>
      <coordinates>
        8.563074026053989,47.38552897948998,0
        8.58324146144775,47.3301449958108,0
      </coordinates>
    </LineString>
  </Placemark>

  <Placemark>
    <name>Line three</name>
    <styleUrl>#tq84-style</styleUrl>
    <LineString>
      <tessellate>1</tessellate>
      <coordinates>
        8.530401348458753,47.32892677784888,0
        8.461013385362232,47.39126161880101,0 
      </coordinates>
    </LineString>
  </Placemark>

</Document>
</kml>

Github repository about-GoogleEarth, path: /kml/elements/Style/styleUrl.kml

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