kml

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…

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 visualize its elevation 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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 cartographic processes. Although it has its limitations and the fruit of its ease every day many perversions are made, we owe this tool that geolocation and navigation on maps is more popular nowadays ... therefore we have ...

CartoDB, the best for creating online maps

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

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 ...

SuperGIS Desktop, some comparisons ...

SuperGIS is part of the Supergeo model that I talked about a few days ago, with good success in the Asian continent. After being tested, here are some of the impressions that I have taken. In general, it does almost what any other program of the competition does. It can only be run on Windows, it is possibly developed on C ++, by ...

Posify, low-cost GPS centimetric accuracy

Recently this product was presented at the ESRI User Conference in Spain, just last week and this next will be in the TopCart of Madrid. It is a GPS positioning and measurement system that supports post-processing, with which centimetric accuracies can be obtained. Nothing that others do not ...

The Trans 450, Fast Transit Bus to Tegucigalpa

This is an interesting project that now takes place in Honduras, under the modality of Bus Rapid Transit (BTR). Although now it is in that stage of understanding before the carriers that do not have the clarity of how the cities evolve, it seems to us one of the milestones 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 as with Excel you 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 to show the code of the point of interest, a text in bold, a descriptive text, a photograph of ...

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 visualize it in Google Earth, including a couple of photos that I have taken The genius of the template is that of a single one: It converts the UTMa Geographical coordinates in decimal format, as it is the ...

How to insert local images into Google Earth

Answering some questions 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 Google Earth point, although using web addresses. In this case I want to show it using a local path: Assuming the file is in position C: /Users/Usuario/Downloads/woopra_ios.png, then ...