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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 increasingly 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 type of ...

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, ...

Get altitudes of a route in Google Earth

When we draw a route in Google Earth, it is possible to make its elevation visible in the application. But when we download the file, it only brings its latitude and longitude coordinates. The altitude is always zero. In this article we will see how to add to this file the elevation obtained from the digital model (srtm) that Google Earth uses. Draw the Route ...

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

For many of the analysts, who want to build maps where a raster reference from any platform such as Google, Bing or ArcGIS Imagery is displayed, we are sure that we have no problem since almost any platform has access to these services. But if what we want is to download those images in good resolution, then what solutions like ...

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? Indeed, if we enter your website, the first thing that appears is a list with the names of various cities, among the ...

My experience using Google Earth for Cadastre

I often see the same questions in the keywords that users come to Geofumadas from the Google search engine. Can I do a cadastre using Google Earth? How accurate are Google Earth images? Why is my survey offset from Google Earth? Before they penalize me for what ...

View 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 land with 7 vertices and a house with four vertices. Save the Google Earth data. To download this data, right click on "My places", and select "Save place as ..." Because it is a file ...

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 ...

Spatial Manager: Manage spatial data efficiently even from AutoCAD

Spatial Manager is an application for spatial data management, which works independently. It also has a plugin that gives geospatial capabilities to AutoCAD.

Sync Microstation with Google Earth

Google Earth has become an almost inevitable tool in our current mapping processes. Although it has its limitations and the result of its ease, many perversions are commented every day, we owe this tool that geolocation and navigation on maps are more popular today ... therefore we have ...

CartoDB, the best for creating online maps

CartoDB is one of the most interesting applications developed for creating attractive online maps in a very short time. Mounted on PostGIS and PostgreSQL, ready to use, it is one of the best I have seen ... and that it is an initiative of Hispanic origin, adds value to it. Formats that it supports Because it is a focused development ...

OkMap, best for creating and editing GPS maps. GRATUITOUS

OkMap is perhaps one of the most robust programs for building, editing and managing GPS maps. And its most important attribute: It is Free. All of us have one day seen the need to configure a map, georeference an image, upload a shape file or kml to a Garmin GPS. Tasks like these are ...

SuperGIS Desktop, some comparisons ...

SuperGIS is part of the Supergeo model that I spoke about a few days ago, with good success in the Asian continent. After testing it, here are some of the impressions that I have taken. Overall, it does just about what any other competing program does. It can only be run on Windows, possibly it is developed on C ++, for ...

Posify, low-cost GPS centimetric accuracy

This product was recently presented at the ESRI User Conference in Spain, just last week and this next they will be on the TopCart in Madrid. It is a GPS positioning and measurement system that supports post-processing, with which centimeter precision can be obtained. Nothing that others don't do ...

The Trans 450, Rapid Transit Bus for Tegucigalpa

This is an interesting project that is now being developed in Honduras, under the Rapid Transit Bus (BTR) modality. Although now it is at that stage of understanding before transporters who do not have the clarity of how cities evolve, it seems to us one of the milestone works in the development of the thematic axis ...

Export list of geographic coordinates to Google Earth, from Excel, with image and rich text

This is an example of how Excel can send content to Google Earth. The case is this: We have a list of coordinates in decimal geographic format (lat / lon). We want to send to Google Earth, and we want the code of the point of interest to be displayed there, a text in bold, a descriptive text, a photograph of the ...

Excel to Google Earth, from UTM coordinates

Let's see the case: I have gone to the field to build a property, as shown in the following table and I want to view it in Google Earth, including a couple of photos that I have taken The genius of the template is that it only takes one shot: It converts the Geographic UTMa coordinates in decimal format, as it is ...

How to insert local images in Google Earth

Responding to some doubts that come to me, I take the opportunity to leave the result for public use. Some time ago I had talked about how you can insert images linked to a point in Google Earth, although using web addresses. In this case I want to show it using a local path: Assuming that the file is in position C: /Users/Usuario/Downloads/woopra_ios.png, then ...