Import & alter map data

These features are only bachelor in Google Globe Pro.

Import spreadsheet data

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

Add longitude and latitude from a CSV file

If you would like to practice importing data, yous 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 up Google Globe Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Browse to the location of the CSV file and open it.
  4. In the box that appears, adjacent to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, cullComma.
  6. Employ the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly and click Next.
  7. Next to "This dataset does non contain latitude/longitude information," go out the box unchecked.
  8. Select the fields in your spreadsheet that contain the latitude and longitude information and click Adjacent.
    Optional: Specify the type of each field in your dataset.
  9. Click Cease. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  10. To utilize a style template, click Aye.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Create a new style template, or use a previously generated template.

Yous can adjust the proper name, color, icon, and acme for your placemark. If you lot similar, save your selections as a template to utilise in the futurity.

Import addresses

If y'all desire to meet multiple locations effectually the world, you can import addresses into Google Earth Pro. Each accost that you import is converted to a placemark on the Earth.

Guidelines for importing addresses

  • You can merely import addresses located inside the United States, Great britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, and Kingdom of spain.
  • Y'all cannot use an address that contains a P.O. box.
  • Single-address field: You tin define the street, city, state, country, and null code in a unmarried field.
  • Multiple address fields: You can also define street, city, country, country, and zip code in multiple fields.
  • Partial address default values: If some of your points take partial addresses, yous can utilise the data import wizard to define default values for missing fields, such every bit state or nothing code.

Import address data from a CSV file

If you would like to practice importing information, y'all can download a sample CSV file to use with the steps. Or follow these steps with your ain 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 it.
  4. In the message that appears, adjacent to Field Type, cullDelimited.
  5. Side by side to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Next to "This dataset does not contain breadth/longitude information," check the box and click Next.
  9. Cull "Addresses are broken into multiple fields."
  10. Under "Select Address Field(due south)," look over the names to brand sure they're correct and clickNext.
  11. Confirm the list of fields and the blazon of information selected for each and click Back.
  12. Click Stop. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  13. To apply a manner template, click Aye.
  14. Click OK.

If you lot similar, save the template every bit a file (.kst) that you can use in the time to come.

Google World displays your address data as icons in the 3D viewer. Yous can edit the backdrop of these placemarks as you would any other placemark.

Import images

You tin can open GIS imagery files to projection images embedded with display information over specific map coordinates in the 3D viewer. Files using NAD83 project are non supported by Google Earth.

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

Other epitome files

You can as well import images if you manually edit their coordinates for right positioning. Imagery files without the right project data will not be accurately re-projected.

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

Open up GIS images

Y'all tin can open up GIS images in Google World to view them over a map image.

  1. Open your computer, open Google World Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open up. And then, choose the file you desire to import.The overlay edit window appears.
  3. Set the location of the new overlay in any binder inside the 'Places' panel.
  4. Choose the backdrop for the GIS image:
  • The reprojected image is saved as an overlay. The image is saved nether the Google Earth directory on your difficult drive. The proper noun of the PNG file is based on the source file name and the scaling or cropping parameters selected when importing the overlay. (See below for more information on scaling or cropping an image.
  • For larger paradigm files, reprojection can take some time. If you have cropped or scaled an input image, or if you are reprojecting an image that uses more than texture retentivity, you will come across a progress meter while the reprojection occurs. You can cancel the operation at any time.
  • Images that contain no project information are treated as ordinary overlay files. Y'all tin position the image manually equally you would an overlay paradigm.
  • Images that contain wrong or unsupported project information volition not be imported. A dialog box indicates that the reprojection cannot be performed and the prototype volition not be imported.

Salvage GIS images

Once y'all have imported imagery data, you can salvage content changes made to the imported GIS data:

Move the imported imagery to remain in your 'My Places' folder. If you lot take already placed the imagery overlay inside the 'My Places' binder, any changes you brand to it are automatically saved and viewable when y'all offset Google Globe.

Salve the imagery overlay as a KMZ file. If y'all wish to remove the imported imagery from your 'My Places' folder:

  1. Right-click the item and select Salve Identify As from the popular-upward menu.
  2. Then, salvage the GIS overlay every bit a KMZ file to your computer's hard drive or other accessible file location.
  3. Delete the overlay from your 'My Places' list and open it when you lot need it.

Import vector data

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

  1. Open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open up.
  3. Select the blazon of file you want to import or choose All data import formats.

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

Annotation: If you lot don't utilise a style template and your information does not contain a 'Proper noun' field, the starting time bachelor field that contains text is used as the label for data.

Use tertiary party vector information

Most third party GIS vector data comes as a collection of support files. If expected data does non display in the 3D viewer, it 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 projection is non WGS84)
    • DBF (attribute data)
  • Generic text files

Import generic text files

You tin can ascertain your own indicate information and import it using generic text files.

Generic text files must:

  • Take named columns whose values are separated either by commas, spaces, or tabs.
  • Be saved as either CSV or TXT format.
  • Display 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 single file.

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

Optional and Descriptive Fields

You can use any number of fields in your custom information file to label and describe points in Google Earth Pro.

Optional fields can be divers every bit text or strings:

  • A string field tin can contain both numbers and alphabetic characters.
  • Strings must be either enclosed in quotation marks or contain white space and then that it cannon be interpreted equally a number.

With style templates, y'all can use these field types to create useful visual effects in the 3D viewer such as graphs or color-coding of data based on theast values in the fields:

  • Integer
  • Floating bespeak value

Apply a style template

You can apply a style template to vector data that contains fields yous desire to have displayed in the 3D viewer.

  • Mode templates can simply be applied to placemarks that comprise extended schema data, such as those imported in a vector data file.
  • Yous tin can use the same way template for different data that has the same fields if the template settings are adjusted to stand for the data properly.

To utilise a mode template:

  1. Afterwards you import information to your 'Places' panel, select the data folder and click Edit and then Apply Style Template.
  2. ClickUtilize existing template.
  3. In the 'Compatible templates' list, cull the style template yous desire to apply to your data set up.
  4. To edit the style template, clickEdit selected template and thenOK.
  5. Cull a field from your information that you desire to employ as a proper noun, or label, for your information. Notation: This name appears in the 3D viewer and in the Places panel that lists the data points.
  6. Click Color to map an element of your data to colour styles.
  7. Click Icon to map an element of your data to i or more than icons.
  8. Click Top to map a height value to a information element.
  9. Click OK.

You lot'll see your data and defined values in the 3D viewer.

Map data fields to unlike features

Map color styles

You can use color to selected fields in your imported information. In this case, color is applied to the characteristic 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

Use the color style to color these elements in a meaningful way depending upon both the data type and the field data within the entire prepare.

Use a single colour for all features

If you want to use 1 color for all the points or lines from your imported data, select the 'Use unmarried color' pick. Then, click the colored foursquare next to the option. From the color selector, cull a color or ascertain your own color to apply to the information.

Utilise random colors

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

Set colors based on field values

If you lot want to compare features with a data set, employ colors to define unlike field values.

Examples:

  • Set a short range of colors based on the foursquare footage of real estate listings.
  • Fix a range of colors for shape files showing average household income.

Follow steps 1-6 under Utilise a style template.

  1. Select the Prepare color from field choice in the "Color" tab. And so, choose a color from the Set color dropdown. Here, you lot can choose either numeric fields or text fields from your information.
  2. To change the color range, click each color cake and set the starting and ending colour. Google Earth Pro calculates the range betwixt the 2 color values.
  3. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets.
  4. To display data elements for places based on colour bucket, create subfolders.To evidence or hibernate the display of color groups, use the bank check box next to the folder. Note: Only 1 sub-folder can be assigned for either color or icon brandish.
  5. To opposite the gild of the color range and their chemical element assignments, click Reverse society.
  6. Click OK to salve your fashion template.

Map icons to point information

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

There are two ways to map icons to points:

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

Set icons to fields in your data

Customize icons for imported placemarks past a information field.

Follow steps 1-6 under Employ a way template.

  1. Select Set icon from field. Choose the field that you want to apply icon labels to.
  2. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets. For each bucket divers, select an icon from the list.
  3. Create subfolders to display data elements for places based on colour bucket.To show or hibernate the brandish of color groups, use the check box adjacent to the binder. Note: Only one sub-folder tin be assigned for either color or icon display.
  4. To change an individual bucket icon element, click the bucket to adjust the value or value range. Note: To adapt the spread of the information to your preference, change the settings for numeric buckets.
  5. Click OK to save the style template.

Map superlative values

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

  • If you lot map height to lines or shapes, the values you lot ascertain work in combination with the colors defined.
  • If you map superlative to betoken information, those points are moved using a single pixel colored line to connect the icon from its elevated position to the ground. You can use style settings to modify the width and color of lines.

Height values for text fields

If the field you cull to map contains text information, the first 8 unique fields are each defined in their own saucepan. Simply map acme values to a field that has eight or fewer unique values.

Height 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 acme brandish for the entire ready. Use this method for smaller data sets where individual distinctions between points or shapes are easily visualized.
  • Split into buckets : Creates upward to 8 top groupings for your data. Use this method for big data 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 fashion settings for each betoken to alter the line thickness.

  1. Mouse over the point you lot desire to modify. Then, select Backdrop (Windows, Linux) or Get Info(Mac).
  2. In the 'Style, Color' section, modify the point's appearance every bit needed.
  3. Click OK.

Annotation: For big data sets, utilize changes to entire folders or subfolders.

Choose field types

When using color, icon, or top mapping for specific fields in your data fix, you can define a number of buckets to prove unlike ranges of data. Y'all can choose two basic types of fields from your data when mapping color, icon, or pinnacle values.

Text (string) fields

If a field type contains non-numeric data, Google Earth Pro maps the first 8 unique text fields to the way. If in that location are fewer than 8 values in your data, each unique value is paired to a different color, icon, or height. If there are more than eight values, the start eight unique values are mapped to a mode, and the residue of the values are grouped together and mapped to a ninth style. For this reason, it typically is near useful to apply a fashion to text fields that contain small unique sets.

Numeric fields

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

Fix field formatting errors

If you are using a spreadsheet awarding to create your data, choose a numeric cell format. If y'all take numeric fields in your CSV saved from a spreadsheet, but the 'Way Template' wizard is not recognizing it as numeric, it might be due to incorrect formatting.

To verify whether the actual field is marked as text or numeric:

  1. Open the CSV file in a elementary text editor and look at the field in question.
  2. If the field is enclosed in double quotation marks, then it has been defined as text — fifty-fifty if there are simply numbers within the quotations.
  3. Remove the quotation marks manually from the file, or open your spreadsheet awarding and format the cells as numeric.
  4. So, salve the CSV information again.

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