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I wrote previously on how Shape2Earth can now create center-points from polygons that can be used for labeling. The next thing I need to do is create the same functionality for lines. This is a bit trickier than for polygons. Imagine using the bounding envelope for the Missouri River to create a center-point to label [...]

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I am not sure that this is what the Google Earth engineers had in mind when they released it, but new COM API exposes a method called “GetPointOnTerrainFromScreenCoords”.
If you pass this method normalized screen coordinates from the GE Render window, it will return the Latitude, Longitude, and elevation of that point in Google Earth. This [...]

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[Note: Final testing for Shape2Earth is complete. Shape2Earth Version 1.0 is has been released as shareware, and is available for download at http://shape2earth.com/shp2e.aspx]
The final beta version of Shape2Earth is ready for testing. I am particularly interested in international users, as I have had some issues with coordinates being written without decimals, and I want to [...]

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Signalé par Brandon Badger, le chef de produit, trace l’api regardant
pour conduire plus de trafic à votre emplacement des cartes api ?
Mapplets ont été maintenant lancés sur des cartes de Google et sont
une grande manière d’atteindre des utilisateurs avec vos données
geospatial. Vous pouvez créer votre mashup entier à l’intérieur
d’un Mapplet, ou vous pouvez l’employer comme [...]

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Announced by Mano Marks, team of api Geo
Today, Google launched the ground of Google exceed the program
to help of the non-profit organizations present their ground contents
of Google by using KML. This site is a great resource for not-profits,
and also for the remainder of us. They are certain great resources on
the site:
Run of instruction on a [...]

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Shape2Earth is a quick and easy way to convert GIS files into Keyhole Markup Language for viewing in Google Earth.
Instructions on how to use Shape2Earth Version 1.0 have been posted at this Shape2Earth Users Blog.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F09%2F21%2Fshape2earth-instructions-2%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Shape2Earth+Instructions’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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UPDATE: Shape2Earth Beta 2 testing has closed. Shape2Earth Version 1.0 hase been released as shareware, and is available for download below.
http://www.shape2earth.com

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F09%2F21%2Fdownload-shape2earth-beta-2%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Download+Shape2Earth+Beta+2′;
addthis_pub = ”;

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I think that the Shape2Earth shapefile to KML coverter for Google Earth is just about ready to be released to a number of beta testing volunteers. I was debating whether or not I should spend some additional time optimizing certian sections of code. I’m leaning more towards just getting it out there. I’m not going [...]

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The marks of Mano, equips with api Geo there are three new useful
resources raises some for those of you who function with KML (or think
of working with KML!)
Initially, there we added a page to the documentation of KML on the
search for Google of the files of KML and the food of GeoRSS. This
guide takes to [...]

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The Google Earthlings will race again! After last October’s weather debacle in Moab, the Google Earthlings mountain bike race team will once again participate in a 24 hour relay race. This time, we will be racing down the road from the Googleplex at Laguna Seca. Follow our (mis)adventure on our team blog!
My teammate Dave tracked [...]

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One of the most requested functional additions for Shape2Earth has been the ability to label polygons. This is now possible with the use of a centroid function that creates a point in the middle of the polygon for the label.
In the example below, I will be labeling major lakes in the United States.
First, I open [...]

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Another interesting thing that I have been poking around at for some time is the ability to read ESRI Access Personal Geodatabases directly from their binary representation without the need for ArcObjects. The trickiest part of this was having to interpolate curves. I have this working to a reasonable degree.
The current prototype exports PGDB [...]

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Shape2Earth is a quick and easy way to convert GIS files into Keyhole Markup Language for viewing in Google Earth.
Instructions on how to use Shape2Earth Version 1.0 have been posted at this Shape2Earth Users Blog.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F09%2F21%2Fshape2earth-instructions%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Shape2Earth+Instructions’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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Way back when I first started investigating using Google Earth as a near real-time visualization client for a GIS, I stumbled upon GE’s very small API. For those of you not familiar with the term, an API is the Application Programming Interface for an application. It provides programmatic control to certain parts of the program.
The [...]

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I was recently at an Air Force conference where Google Earth, NASA’s World Wind, and ESRI’s ArcExplorer where prominently displayed. The serious interest that organizations like the Air Force are putting into these platforms has given me the opportunity to explore each of these platforms a bit more in depth.
I am still using Google Earth [...]

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