Import & change map data

These features are merely available in Google Earth Pro.

Import spreadsheet information

To add location information from a spreadsheet into Google World, import the breadth and longitude info. You'll need a text file that is delimited, which means each line is a divide piece of coordinates info. Every location that you lot import from your text file is converted to a Google World placemark and listed in your Places.

Add longitude and latitude from a CSV file

If you would like to practice importing information, you lot can download a sample CSV file to use with the steps. Or follow these steps with your own CSV file.

  1. On your computer, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Browse to the location of the CSV file and open up it.
  4. In the box that appears, adjacent to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Adjacent to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Utilise the preview pane to ensure your information has imported correctly and click Next.
  7. Next to "This dataset does not incorporate latitude/longitude information," leave the box unchecked.
  8. Select the fields in your spreadsheet that comprise the latitude and longitude data and click Side by side.
    Optional: Specify the blazon of each field in your dataset.
  9. Click Finish. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  10. To use a style template, click Aye.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Create a new style template, or use a previously generated template.

You lot tin can adjust the name, colour, icon, and tiptop for your placemark. If you lot like, save your selections as a template to use in the future.

Import addresses

If you want to see multiple locations around the world, you can import addresses into Google Earth Pro. Each address that you import is converted to a placemark on the Earth.

Guidelines for importing addresses

  • You can just import addresses located inside the United States, Uk, Canada, France, Italy, Frg, and Spain.
  • You cannot use an address that contains a P.O. box.
  • Single-address field: You lot tin can define the street, city, land, state, and nix code in a single field.
  • Multiple address fields: Yous tin can also define street, metropolis, state, country, and zip lawmaking in multiple fields.
  • Partial accost default values: If some of your points have partial addresses, yous can employ the data import wizard to define default values for missing fields, such as land or zip code.

Import address information from a CSV file

If you lot would similar to exercise importing data, you can download a sample CSV file to utilize with the steps. Or follow these steps with your ain CSV file.

  1. On your computer, open Google World Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Browse to the location of the CSV file and open up it.
  4. In the message that appears, next to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly.
  7. Click Side by side.
  8. Next to "This dataset does non contain latitude/longitude information," check the box and click Next.
  9. Choose "Addresses are broken into multiple fields."
  10. Under "Select Address Field(s)," look over the names to make sure they're right and clickAdjacent.
  11. Confirm the list of fields and the type of data selected for each and click Back.
  12. Click Finish. Google Globe begins geocoding your data.
  13. To use a fashion template, click Yeah.
  14. Click OK.

If you like, relieve the template as a file (.kst) that you can apply in the future.

Google Globe displays your address data as icons in the 3D viewer. You lot can edit the properties of these placemarks as you would whatsoever other placemark.

Import images

You lot can open GIS imagery files to project images embedded with brandish information over specific map coordinates in the 3D viewer. Files using NAD83 project are not supported past Google World.

  • TIFF (.tif), including GeoTiff and compressed TIFF files
  • National Imagery Transmission Format (.ntf)
  • Erdas Imagine Images (.img)

Other epitome files

Y'all can also import images if y'all manually edit their coordinates for right positioning. Imagery files without the correct projection data will not be accurately re-projected.

  • Portable Network Graphic (.png)
  • Joint Photographic Skilful (.jpg)
  • Atlantis MFF Raster (.hdr)
  • PCIDSK Database File (.pix)
  • Portable Pixmap Format (.pnm)
  • Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp)

Open GIS images

You can open GIS images in Google Earth to view them over a map image.

  1. Open your reckoner, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open up. Then, cull the file you lot want to import.The overlay edit window appears.
  3. Set the location of the new overlay in any folder inside the 'Places' panel.
  4. Choose the properties for the GIS image:
  • The reprojected epitome is saved as an overlay. The image is saved nether the Google Earth directory on your hard drive. The name of the PNG file is based on the source file name and the scaling or cropping parameters selected when importing the overlay. (Run across beneath for more information on scaling or cropping an image.
  • For larger prototype files, reprojection can take some time. If y'all have cropped or scaled an input image, or if you are reprojecting an prototype that uses more texture memory, you will encounter a progress meter while the reprojection occurs. You can cancel the functioning at whatsoever fourth dimension.
  • Images that incorporate no projection information are treated as ordinary overlay files. You lot tin can position the paradigm manually as you would an overlay paradigm.
  • Images that contain incorrect or unsupported projection information will not be imported. A dialog box indicates that the reprojection cannot be performed and the image will non be imported.

Salve GIS images

Once you have imported imagery data, you can save content changes made to the imported GIS data:

Move the imported imagery to remain in your 'My Places' folder. If y'all have already placed the imagery overlay within the 'My Places' folder, any changes you make to it are automatically saved and viewable when you lot starting time Google Earth.

Save the imagery overlay as a KMZ file. If you wish to remove the imported imagery from your 'My Places' binder:

  1. Right-click the item and select Save Identify Every bit from the popular-up card.
  2. Then, save the GIS overlay as a KMZ file to your computer's difficult bulldoze or other attainable file location.
  3. Delete the overlay from your 'My Places' list and open up information technology when you lot need it.

Import vector information

You can import files with points, lines, paths, and polygons onto your maps.

  1. Open Google World Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open.
  3. Select the type of file you want to import or cull All information import formats.

Once imported, the vector elements appear in the 3D viewer and the imported file is listed nether the 'Temporary Places' binder.

Note: If you don't use a style template and your data does non incorporate a 'Name' field, the first available field that contains text is used equally the label for data.

Use third party vector data

Most third party GIS vector information comes as a collection of support files. If expected data does non brandish in the 3D viewer, information technology might be due to missing support files.

Vector files and required support files:

  • MapInfo (TAB)
    • MAP ID
    • DAT
  • ESRI Shape (SHP)
    • SHX Index
    • PRJ (required if project is not WGS84)
    • DBF (aspect data)
  • Generic text files

Import generic text files

You can define your ain signal data and import it using generic text files.

Generic text files must:

  • Have named columns whose values are separated either by commas, spaces, or tabs.
  • Exist saved every bit either CSV or TXT format.
  • Brandish coordinates as:
    • Degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS)
    • Decimal degrees (DDD)
    • Degrees, minutes, with decimal seconds (DMM)
  • Contain ane or more fields that specify the location of the point on the earth.
  • Not use a mix of geographic coordinates and accost fields in a unmarried file.

You tin can use latitude and longitude coordinates to point the position of the point data in your text file.

Optional and Descriptive Fields

Yous can utilise any number of fields in your custom information file to label and depict points in Google Earth Pro.

Optional fields can be defined as text or strings:

  • A string field can contain both numbers and alphabetic characters.
  • Strings must be either enclosed in quotation marks or contain white space so that information technology cannot be interpreted as a number.

With fashion templates, you tin can use these field types to create useful visual furnishings in the 3D viewer such equally graphs or color-coding of data based on the values in the fields:

  • Integer
  • Floating point value

Apply a style template

You can utilize a style template to vector information that contains fields you want to accept displayed in the 3D viewer.

  • Way templates tin can only be applied to placemarks that contain extended schema information, such every bit those imported in a vector data file.
  • You can use the same style template for different data that has the same fields if the template settings are adjusted to represent the information properly.

To apply a fashion template:

  1. After you import data to your 'Places' panel, select the data folder and click Edit and then Apply Manner Template.
  2. ClickEmploy existing template.
  3. In the 'Compatible templates' list, choose the way template you lot want to utilise to your information fix.
  4. To edit the style template, clickEdit selected template and thenOK.
  5. Choose a field from your data that you want to use every bit a name, or label, for your information. Note: This name appears in the 3D viewer and in the Places panel that lists the information points.
  6. Clicyard Colour to map an chemical element of your data to color styles.
  7. Click Icon to map an chemical element of your information to one or more icons.
  8. Click Summit to map a peak value to a data element.
  9. Click OK.

Y'all'll see your information and defined values in the 3D viewer.

Map data fields to different features

Map color styles

You lot can apply colour to selected fields in your imported data. In this instance, color is applied to the feature depending upon the type of data imported:

  • Icons are colored with point data
  • Lines are colored when applying to lines or paths
  • Solid polygons are colored with shape data

Apply the color way to color these elements in a meaningful way depending upon both the data type and the field data within the unabridged set.

Utilise a single color for all features

If y'all want to use one color for all the points or lines from your imported data, select the 'Use single colour' selection. Then, click the colored square side by side to the option. From the color selector, choose a color or define your own colour to apply to the information.

Use random colors

To use a variety of colors that are applied randomly by Google Globe Pro, select the 'Employ random colors' option. If y'all are also supplying an icon for bespeak data, the color is added to the existing color of the icon.

Gear up colors based on field values

If you lot want to compare features with a information set, utilize colors to define different field values.

Examples:

  • Gear up a short range of colors based on the square footage of real manor listings.
  • Set a range of colors for shape files showing average household income.

Follow steps 1-half dozen under Utilize a style template.

  1. Select the Set color from field choice in the "Color" tab. Then, choose a color from the Set color dropdown. Hither, you tin can choose either numeric fields or text fields from your data.
  2. To modify the color range, click each colour block and prepare the starting and catastrophe color. Google Earth Pro calculates the range between the 2 colour values.
  3. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets.
  4. To display data elements for places based on color bucket, create subfolders.To show or hide the display of colour groups, use the check box next to the binder. Annotation: Simply one sub-folder can exist assigned for either colour or icon brandish.
  5. To reverse the club of the color range and their chemical element assignments, click Contrary order.
  6. Click OK to save your fashion template.

Map icons to signal data

You can apply icons to fields in your information. Icons cannot exist mapped to line or shape data.

In that location are 2 ways to map icons to points:

  • Apply same icon for all features
  • Prepare an icon from a field

Fix icons to fields in your data

Customize icons for imported placemarks by a information field.

Follow steps i-6 nether Use a style template.

  1. Select Set icon from field. Choose the field that yous want to utilize icon labels to.
  2. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets. For each bucket defined, select an icon from the list.
  3. Create subfolders to display data elements for places based on colour bucket.To prove or hide the display of colour groups, use the check box next to the folder. Note: Only one sub-folder can exist assigned for either color or icon display.
  4. To alter an individual bucket icon element, click the saucepan to adapt the value or value range. Notation: To conform the spread of the data to your preference, modify the settings for numeric buckets.
  5. Click OK to save the style template.

Map height values

Subsequently acme values are set, points, lines, or shapes are moved from ground level to the height defined for each information element.

  • If you map meridian to lines or shapes, the values y'all define work in combination with the colors defined.
  • If you map height to point data, those points are moved using a single pixel colored line to connect the icon from its elevated position to the footing. Yous tin utilize manner settings to modify the width and color of lines.

Height values for text fields

If the field y'all choose to map contains text information, the first 8 unique fields are each defined in their own bucket. Merely map height values to a field that has 8 or fewer unique values.

Peak values for numeric fields

When you map height values to a numeric data field, yous can choose from two mapping methods:

  • Continuous : Uses the minimum and maximum values of a field to make up one's mind a minimum and maximum height display for the entire gear up. Use this method for smaller data sets where individual distinctions between points or shapes are easily visualized.
  • Split into buckets : Creates upward to 8 superlative groupings for your data. Use this method for large information sets where continuously mapped heights are not easily visualized in the 3D viewer.

Edit style settings of map points

To make data points and lines easier to see in the 3D viewer, you can edit the mode settings for each betoken to modify the line thickness.

  1. Mouse over the bespeak you want to modify. Then, select Properties (Windows, Linux) or Become Info(Mac).
  2. In the 'Style, Color' section, alter the betoken's appearance equally needed.
  3. Click OK.

Note: For large information sets, apply changes to entire folders or subfolders.

Choose field types

When using color, icon, or acme mapping for specific fields in your data set, y'all tin ascertain a number of buckets to prove unlike ranges of information. Y'all can choose two basic types of fields from your data when mapping color, icon, or pinnacle values.

Text (cord) fields

If a field blazon contains non-numeric data, Google Earth Pro maps the commencement 8 unique text fields to the mode. If there are fewer than eight values in your data, each unique value is paired to a different colour, icon, or height. If there are more than 8 values, the start 8 unique values are mapped to a style, and the rest of the values are grouped together and mapped to a 9th manner. For this reason, it typically is near useful to apply a style to text fields that contain small unique sets.

Numeric fields

Numeric data fields are automatically spread out beyond the number of buckets that you select and include a count of items in each bucket. If you increase or decrease the number of buckets, the application automatically redistributes the number of elements in each saucepan.

Fix field formatting errors

If you lot are using a spreadsheet application to create your data, choose a numeric cell format. If you have numeric fields in your CSV saved from a spreadsheet, merely the 'Style Template' wizard is not recognizing it as numeric, it might be due to incorrect formatting.

To verify whether the bodily field is marked every bit text or numeric:

  1. Open up the CSV file in a simple text editor and look at the field in question.
  2. If the field is enclosed in double quotation marks, and so it has been defined as text — even if at that place are only numbers inside the quotations.
  3. Remove the quotation marks manually from the file, or open your spreadsheet application and format the cells equally numeric.
  4. Then, save the CSV data again.

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