Curious how KML elements appear in Google Maps? Take a look at this sample file. Check any item to display it or click a link to zoom in. Google Maps supports a subset of KML features, as described in the KML documentation. Of course, you can view a KML sample in Earth as well.
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Want to see some very inspiring, imaginative presentations in Google Earth? Look no further than the Google Earth Outreach Showcase. The KML on these pages are created by people who are literally trying to change the world by raising awareness of important global and local issues.
Close to my home, I am particularly fond of the California’s Marine Protected Areas KML, which makes clever use of polylines, image overlays and attractive HTML placemark balloons to describe the beauty and importance of these coastal areas within a geographical context.
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By now, many of you have heard about the new Google Earth API that we announced Wednesday during Google I/O. It’s exciting that you can now enjoy the 3D Google Earth experience in the browser, and you can create your own custom interactive apps on top of it. This new API lets you use JavaScript to programmatically interact with the Earth browser, changing camera views, loading KML or 3D models, or even creating KML objects from scratch.
Here’s your basic “Hello Earth” app:
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /><head><title>Hello Google Earth!</title><!– *** Replace the key below below with your own API key, available at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html *** –><script src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=abcd”></script><script>google.load(”earth”, “1″);
var ge = null;
function init() { google.earth.createInstance(”map3d”, initCallback, failureCallback);}
function initCallback(object) { ge = object; ge.getWindow().setVisibility(true);}
function failureCallback(object) { // Gracefully handle failure.}</script></head>
<body onload=’init()’ id=’body’><center> <div> Hello, Earth! </div>
<div id=’map3d_container’ style=’border: 1px solid silver; height: 600px; width: 800px;’> <div id=’map3d’ style=’height: 100%;’></div> </div></center>
</body></html>
And, if you’re already a Google Maps API developer, adding Google Earth to your mashup is really easy. Just add the following line:
map.addMapType(G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP);
To view apps written in the Earth API, you will have to download a browser plug-in. Currently, the plug-in is Windows only, and works on Mozilla and Internet Explorer based browsers, including Firefox. We are working to expand the number of browsers, and have announced Mac and Linux plug-ins will be released in August.
Check out the cool sample apps. If you have any questions or come across any problems, post them in our Earth API developer group.
Tags: GEO 3D·Google Earth·Google Earth API·KML
For a recent project I was working on, I needed to overlay lines of latitude and longitude on the map. I had a hard time finding some so I created 10 degree and 30 degree grids. Below you can view each of them as a Collection which you can export to KML, GeoRSS or GPX and you can also grab the exported KML for each. I figured someone else must have use for this as well. If you grab the KML files you can easily edit the styles (1 for latitude, 1 for longitude) or make whatever tweaks you need.
10 Degree Lines: Collection or KML
30 Degree Lines: Collection or KML
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The “Quick and Dirty KML Creation” presentation is now available on YouTube. Check it out.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2008%2F04%2F15%2Fkml-video-3%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘KML+Video’;
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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]
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Over the weekend I saw this impressive Collection of Sundials featured on The Google Earth Blog. After checking out a few I wondered how many of these locations would be covered by Virtual Earth’s Birds eye imagery? Since the Collection of Sundials was represented as a KML file, it was pretty easy to [...]
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Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is starting to become a de facto standard for transmitting spatial data. Both Google Maps and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth have added support for viewing KML data. In both of these cases, it is necessary to make the KML file available on the web so that Google and/or Microsoft can [...]
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The “Quick and Dirty KML Creation” presentation is now available on YouTube. Check it out.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2008%2F03%2F03%2Fkml-video-2%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘KML+Video’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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Yesterday, I attended a public workshop here at the Googleplex entitled “Quick & Dirty KML Creation”. Pamela Fox and Mano Marks showed us “how to use tools within Google Maps and Google Earth to create, import, and edit KML.” This was part of the Google Geo Developer Conference series.
The presenters described using Google [...]
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addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2008%2F02%2F28%2Fkml-video%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘KML+Video’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]
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Yesterday, I attended a public workshop here at the Googleplex entitled “Quick & Dirty KML Creation”. Pamela Fox and Mano Marks showed us “how to use tools within Google Maps and Google Earth to create, import, and edit KML.” This was part of the Google Geo Developer Conference series.
The presenters described using Google [...]
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There are three main ways you can import imagery into Google Earth:
Image overlay - (Add > Image Overlay) This is an image that is draped over the surface of the earth (though it can appear elevated as well). Among other things, this feature is useful for importing image files of maps. The picture [...]
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How do you create your KML? There are different KML authoring tools available.
Generally, I edit my KML in Adobe Dreamweaver, though a text editor like Notepad works fine. I create a network link in Google Earth to the KML file so I can view how my edits appear almost as soon I create [...]
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