Import & alter map information

These features are only available in Google Globe Pro.

Import spreadsheet data

To add location data from a spreadsheet into Google Earth, import the latitude and longitude info. You'll need a text file that is delimited, which means each line is a split up slice of coordinates info. Every location that you 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 similar to practice importing information, you lot can download a sample CSV file to utilize 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 it.
  4. In the box that appears, next to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Side by side to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly and click Next.
  7. Next to "This dataset does not contain latitude/longitude information," leave 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 Finish. Google Earth begins geocoding your information.
  10. To use a style template, click Yes.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Create a new manner template, or use a previously generated template.

You lot can adjust the name, color, icon, and height for your placemark. If you like, salve your selections equally a template to utilise in the future.

Import addresses

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

Guidelines for importing addresses

  • You can only import addresses located within the The states, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italia, Frg, and Spain.
  • Y'all cannot employ an address that contains a P.O. box.
  • Single-address field: You can define the street, metropolis, country, country, and zip lawmaking in a single field.
  • Multiple address fields: Y'all can also define street, city, country, country, and zip code in multiple fields.
  • Partial address default values: If some of your points have partial addresses, y'all can use the information import wizard to define default values for missing fields, such as state or nada code.

Import accost data from a CSV file

If you would like to practice importing data, you 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 Globe 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. Employ the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Adjacent to "This dataset does not comprise latitude/longitude data," cheque the box and click Adjacent.
  9. Cull "Addresses are broken into multiple fields."
  10. Under "Select Address Field(s)," wait over the names to make sure they're correct and clickNext.
  11. Ostend the list of fields and the type of information selected for each and click Back.
  12. Click Terminate. Google Earth begins geocoding your information.
  13. To use a style template, click Yes.
  14. Click OK.

If you similar, salve the template equally a file (.kst) that you can utilize in the future.

Google Earth displays your address information as icons in the 3D viewer. Y'all tin edit the properties of these placemarks equally y'all would any other placemark.

Import images

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

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

Other image files

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

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

Open GIS images

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

  1. Open your calculator, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open. Then, cull the file you lot desire to import.The overlay edit window appears.
  3. Set up the location of the new overlay in any binder inside the 'Places' console.
  4. Choose the backdrop for the GIS image:
  • The reprojected prototype is saved every bit an overlay. The image is saved under the Google Globe directory on your hard drive. The proper name of the PNG file is based on the source file proper name and the scaling or cropping parameters selected when importing the overlay. (See below for more data on scaling or cropping an image.
  • For larger image files, reprojection can take some time. If you lot have cropped or scaled an input image, or if you are reprojecting an image that uses more texture memory, yous will come across a progress meter while the reprojection occurs. You tin can cancel the functioning at any fourth dimension.
  • Images that incorporate no projection information are treated equally ordinary overlay files. You can position the image manually as you would an overlay prototype.
  • Images that comprise incorrect or unsupported projection information will not be imported. A dialog box indicates that the reprojection cannot exist performed and the image will not be imported.

Save GIS images

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

Move the imported imagery to remain in your 'My Places' binder. If you have already placed the imagery overlay within the 'My Places' binder, any changes you brand to it are automatically saved and viewable when you start Google Earth.

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

  1. Right-click the item and select Relieve Place Equally from the popular-up menu.
  2. Then, save the GIS overlay as a KMZ file to your calculator's hard drive or other accessible file location.
  3. Delete the overlay from your 'My Places' listing and open up it when you need it.

Import vector data

You lot 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 type of file you want to import or choose All information import formats.

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

Note: If yous don't utilize a way template and your information does not contain a 'Name' field, the first available field that contains text is used as the characterization for data.

Use third political party vector information

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

Vector files and required back up files:

  • MapInfo (TAB)
    • MAP ID
    • DAT
  • ESRI Shape (SHP)
    • SHX Index
    • PRJ (required if projection is non WGS84)
    • DBF (attribute information)
  • Generic text files

Import generic text files

You lot can define your own indicate information and import it using generic text files.

Generic text files must:

  • Accept 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)
  • Incorporate one or more than fields that specify the location of the point on the earth.
  • Not use a mix of geographic coordinates and address fields in a single file.

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

Optional and Descriptive Fields

Y'all can use any number of fields in your custom data file to characterization and describe points in Google Globe Pro.

Optional fields tin can be defined as text or strings:

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

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

  • Integer
  • Floating point value

Apply a style template

Y'all can apply a manner template to vector data that contains fields you want to have displayed in the 3D viewer.

  • Style templates can simply be practical to placemarks that contain extended schema information, such equally those imported in a vector data file.
  • You can use the same fashion template for different data that has the aforementioned fields if the template settings are adjusted to represent the data properly.

To utilise a fashion template:

  1. After you lot import data to your 'Places' panel, select the data folder and click Edit and then Employ Mode Template.
  2. ClickUtilize existing template.
  3. In the 'Compatible templates' list, choose the way template you want to apply to your data set.
  4. To edit the style template, clickEdit selected template and thenOK.
  5. Choose a field from your data that you desire to use every bit a name, or label, for your data. Note: This name appears in the 3D viewer and in the Places panel that lists the data points.
  6. Clicgrand Color to map an element of your data to colour styles.
  7. Click Icon to map an element of your data to one or more than icons.
  8. Click Height to map a acme value to a information element.
  9. Click OK.

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

Map data fields to unlike features

Map color styles

You lot can employ color to selected fields in your imported data. In this example, color is practical 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 colour way to color these elements in a meaningful way depending upon both the data type and the field data within the entire set.

Apply a single colour for all features

If you want to use one color for all the points or lines from your imported data, select the 'Use single color' option. Then, click the colored foursquare next to the option. From the color selector, cull a colour or define your own colour to utilise to the data.

Use random colors

To employ a variety of colors that are applied randomly by Google World Pro, select the 'Apply random colors' option. If you are also supplying an icon for point data, the color is added to the existing color of the icon.

Set up colors based on field values

If yous want to compare features with a data set, use colors to define unlike field values.

Examples:

  • Set a curt range of colors based on the square footage of existent estate listings.
  • Set a range of colors for shape files showing average household income.

Follow steps 1-six under Apply a manner template.

  1. Select the Set color from field pick in the "Color" tab. Then, choose a color from the Set color dropdown. Here, you tin can choose either numeric fields or text fields from your data.
  2. To change the color range, click each color block and set the starting and catastrophe colour. Google Earth Pro calculates the range between the 2 colour values.
  3. To grouping 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 hibernate the display of color groups, use the check box next to the folder. Note: But ane sub-binder tin can be assigned for either color or icon display.
  5. To contrary the lodge of the color range and their element assignments, click Contrary society.
  6. Click OK to save your style template.

Map icons to point data

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

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

  • Use aforementioned icon for all features
  • Ready an icon from a field

Set icons to fields in your data

Customize icons for imported placemarks by a data field.

Follow steps one-six under Employ a style template.

  1. Select Ready icon from field. Choose the field that yous desire 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 listing.
  3. Create subfolders to display data elements for places based on color saucepan.To show or hide the display of color groups, use the check box side by side to the folder. Annotation: But i sub-binder can be assigned for either colour or icon brandish.
  4. To modify an individual bucket icon element, click the saucepan to adjust the value or value range. Note: To adjust the spread of the data to your preference, modify the settings for numeric buckets.
  5. Click OK to save the way template.

Map height values

After superlative values are fix, points, lines, or shapes are moved from ground level to the height defined for each data element.

  • If you map height to lines or shapes, the values yous define work in combination with the colors defined.
  • If you lot map height to indicate data, those points are moved using a single pixel colored line to connect the icon from its elevated position to the basis. You tin can employ style settings to alter the width and colour of lines.

Height values for text fields

If the field you choose to map contains text data, the first 8 unique fields are each divers in their ain bucket. Only map elevation values to a field that has eight or fewer unique values.

Height values for numeric fields

When you map meridian values to a numeric data field, you tin choose from two mapping methods:

  • Continuous : Uses the minimum and maximum values of a field to determine a minimum and maximum height brandish for the entire set. Utilise this method for smaller data sets where individual distinctions between points or shapes are hands visualized.
  • Split into buckets : Creates up to eight elevation groupings for your information. Use this method for big data sets where continuously mapped heights are non easily visualized in the 3D viewer.

Edit style settings of map points

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

  1. Mouse over the indicate you want to modify. Then, select Properties (Windows, Linux) or Become Info(Mac).
  2. In the 'Fashion, Colour' section, modify the signal's appearance as needed.
  3. Click OK.

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

Choose field types

When using color, icon, or height mapping for specific fields in your information set, you can define a number of buckets to show unlike ranges of data. Y'all can cull two bones types of fields from your data when mapping color, icon, or superlative values.

Text (string) fields

If a field type contains non-numeric data, Google World Pro maps the starting time viii unique text fields to the style. If there are fewer than viii values in your data, each unique value is paired to a different color, icon, or superlative. If thereastward are more than 8 values, the first 8 unique values are mapped to a mode, and the rest of the values are grouped together and mapped to a ninth fashion. For this reason, it typically is well-nigh useful to utilize a style to text fields that contain small-scale unique sets.

Numeric fields

Numeric data fields are automatically spread out across the number of buckets that y'all select and include a count of items in each bucket. If y'all increase or subtract the number of buckets, the awarding automatically redistributes the number of elements in each bucket.

Fix field formatting errors

If you 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 information technology as numeric, it might be due to incorrect formatting.

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

  1. Open up the CSV file in a unproblematic text editor and await at the field in question.
  2. If the field is enclosed in double quotation marks, then it has been defined equally text — even if in that location are but numbers inside the quotations.
  3. Remove the quotation marks manually from the file, or open your spreadsheet application and format the cells as numeric.
  4. So, salve the CSV data again.

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