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How to raise 3D buildings in Google Earth

Many of us know the Google Earth tool, and that is why in recent years we have witnessed its interesting evolution, to provide us with more and more effective solutions in line with technological advances. This tool is commonly used to locate places, locate points, extract coordinates, enter spatial data to perform some kind of…

Testing the accuracy of Google's elevation data - Surprise!

Google Earth provides access to your elevation data with a free Google Elevation API key. Civil Site Design, takes advantage of this potential with its new Satellite to Surface functionality. This function allows you to select an area and the distance between the points of the grid, it returns a surface with curves of level integrated with the ...

See UTM coordinates in Google Maps and Street View

Step 1. Download the data feed template. Although the article focuses on UTM coordinates, the application has templates in latitude and longitude with decimal degrees, as well as in degrees, minutes and seconds. Step 2. Upload the template. When selecting the template with the data, ...

How to download images from Google Earth - Google Maps - Bing - ArcGIS Imagery and other sources

For many of the analysts, we want to build maps where any raster reference of any platform like Google, Bing or ArcGIS Imagery is visualized, surely we have no problem since almost any platform has access to those services. But if what we want is to download those images in good resolution, then solutions like ...

Wms2Cad - interact wms services with CAD programs

Wms2Cad is a unique tool to bring to the CAD drawing WMS and TMS services as a reference. This includes mapping services and images from Google Earth and OpenStreet maps. It's simple, fast and effective. Only choose the type of map from the predefined list of WMS services or define one of your interest, ...

Insert map in Excel - get geographic coordinates - UTM coordinates

Map.XL is an application that allows you to insert a map inside Excel and get coordinates directly from the map. You can also display a list of latitudes and longitudes on the map. How to insert the map in Excel Once the Program is installed, it is added as an additional tab called "Map", with the functionalities of ...

Download maps and plan a route using BBBike

BBBike is an application whose main objective is to provide a route planner to travel, by bicycle, through a city and its surroundings. How do we create our route planner? In effect, if we enter your website, the first thing that is shown to us is a list with the names of different cities, among the ...

My experience using Google Earth for Cadastre

I often see the same questions in the keywords by which users arrive at Geofumadas from the Google search engine. Can I register using Google Earth? How accurate are the images in Google Earth? Why is my survey displaced with respect to Google Earth? Before I get penalized for what ...

See Google Earth coordinates in Excel - and convert them to UTM

I have data in Google Earth, and I want to visualize the coordinates in Excel. As you can see, it is a plot with 7 vertices and a house with four vertices. Save Google Earth data. To download this data, right click on "My Places", and select "Save place as ..." For being a file ...

How to create a Custom Map and Do not Die in the Intent?

The company Allware ltd has recently launched a Web Framework called eZhing (www.ezhing.com), with which you can in 4 steps have your own private map with indicators and IoT (Sensors, IBeacons, Alamas, etc) all in real time. 1.- Create your Layout (Zones, Objects, Figures) layout -> Save, 2.- Name the objects propierties -> Save, 3.- Expose ...

Download utm zones for Google Earth

This file contains the UTM zones in kmz format. Once downloaded you must unzip it. Download the file here Download the file here Just as a reference ... the geographical coordinates come from splitting the globe into segments just as we would with an apple, the vertical cuts are made by the meridians (called lengths) and the ...

Open shp files with Google Earth

The version of Google Earth Pro stopped being paid a long time ago, with which it is possible to open different GIS and Raster files directly from the application. We understand that there are different ways to send a SHP file to Google Earth, either from proprietary software such as BentleyMap or AutoCAD Civil3D, or open source ...

Valuable encouragement for gvSIG - The Europa Challenge Award

It is nice to know that gvSIG has received an international award during the recent Europa Challenge. This award provides the opportunity for projects that contribute to innovation and sustainable solutions for the global community. Of course, if they add value to the INSPIRE Initiative and use the technology available from ...

Geomarketing Vs. Privacy: Impact of Geolocation on the common user

Since its introduction in the advertising industry, geolocation has become a fashion concept, being perceived as one of the main advantages of mobile devices, compared to PCs, in the opinion of advertisers. However, it is discussed on the subject of privacy that, according to some, is ...

Display QGIS data in Google Earth

GEarthView is an essential plugin that allows you to make a synchronized view of a Quantum GIS deployment on Google Earth. How to install the plugin To install it, you must select: Add-ons> Manage add-ons and search for it, as shown in the image. Once the plugin is installed, it can be viewed in the toolbar ...

OkMap, best for creating and editing GPS maps. GRATUITOUS

OkMap is perhaps one of the most robust programs for the construction, edition and management of GPS maps. And its most important attribute: It's Free. Every day we have seen the need to configure a map, georeferencing an image, upload a shape file or kml to a Garmin GPS. Tasks like these are ...

3 Magazines and 5 experiences of the geomatic field

It's time to review some magazines whose recent editions have come out; Here I leave at least interesting experiences that come out in the latest edition of these magazines. 1 Geoinformatics. User experiences in the use of Open Source GIS Software. It is interesting to read this article, which shows us what ...

Plex.Earth 3.0 Load WMS services from AutoCAD

Plex.Earth 3.0, which I had the time to try while defining the availability date in the definitive version, has come to me. Possibly in the month of November of 2012. Run with AutoCAD 2013 Perhaps the most novel, is that this version is made specifically for AutoCAD 2013, or any of its ...