Spatial Manager Blog : Google Earth (KML) (page 2)
Export texts to Google Earth
Export texts or labels from a DWG to Google Earth directly maintaining the layer and object colours. It is a very intuitive one-step process of publishing stylized geometries grouped by their layers with their names or other related data or... more
Combine Quick select and Select by Query
Selection by Query in Spatial Manager allows you to select objects in the drawing or map according to data values in the data tables. Not only can these queries be as simple or as complex as the user desires, but... more
Capture and import Google Earth images (.geprint)
Google Earth allows you to save any image of the maps that are shown on the screen considering which are the active Places and Layers along with a configuration file (.geprint) that stores the Map options but also the Map... more
Exporting 3D to Google Earth (KML, KMZ)
Although you can find several examples in this Blog where you can see how to export 3D objects to Google Earth basing their altitudes on an attached data or on their constant Z elevation, you can also export native 3D... more
Road and street profiles from your DWGs or maps
Google Earth includes a little-known function that allows you to analyze the elevation profiles of roads, streets, highways, railways, paths, etc. polylines. The tools for export/publish to KML or KMZ files from your flat 2D (or 3D) drawings and maps... more
Two ways to bring your drawings or maps to Google Earth
Google Earth is one of the most popular platforms for 2D and 3D visualization of spatial and geographic information, not only because it is free and very accessible to any non-expert user, but also because of the included tools... more