Import & change map data

These features are just bachelor in Google World Pro.

Import spreadsheet information

To add location data from a spreadsheet into Google Earth, import the latitude and longitude info. Y'all'll need a text file that is delimited, which means each line is a separate piece of coordinates info. Every location that you import from your text file is converted to a Google Earth placemark and listed in your Places.

Add longitude and latitude from a CSV file

If you would like to practice importing data, you tin can download a sample CSV file to use with the steps. Or follow these steps with your own CSV file.

  1. On your reckoner, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Scan to the location of the CSV file and open information technology.
  4. In the box that appears, adjacent to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, cullComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your information has imported correctly and click Next.
  7. Next to "This dataset does non incorporate latitude/longitude data," leave the box unchecked.
  8. Select the fields in your spreadsheet that contain the latitude and longitude data and click Side by side.
    Optional: Specify the type of each field in your dataset.
  9. Click Finish. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  10. To apply a style template, click Yes.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Create a new manner template, or apply a previously generated template.

Yous can arrange the name, color, icon, and elevation for your placemark. If you similar, save your selections equally a template to employ in the time to come.

Import addresses

If you want to encounter multiple locations around the world, you can import addresses into Google Earth Pro. Each address that you lot import is converted to a placemark on the Earth.

Guidelines for importing addresses

  • You tin just import addresses located within the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italia, Germany, and Espana.
  • You cannot use an address that contains a P.O. box.
  • Single-address field: You can define the street, city, state, country, and zip code in a single field.
  • Multiple address fields: Yous can also define street, city, land, state, and zero code in multiple fields.
  • Partial accost default values: If some of your points have partial addresses, you can use the data import sorcerer to define default values for missing fields, such as country or goose egg code.

Import address data from a CSV file

If y'all would similar to practice importing data, y'all tin download a sample CSV file to employ with the steps. Or follow these steps with your own CSV file.

  1. On your computer, open up Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Browse to the location of the CSV file and open it.
  4. In the message that appears, adjacent to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Adjacent to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Adjacent to "This dataset does not contain latitude/longitude information," check the box and click Side by side.
  9. Choose "Addresses are broken into multiple fields."
  10. Nether "Select Address Field(southward)," look over the names to make certain they're correct and clickNext.
  11. Confirm the listing of fields and the type of data selected for each and click Dorsum.
  12. Click Finish. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  13. To utilize a fashion template, click Aye.
  14. Click OK.

If yous like, save the template as a file (.kst) that you tin can use in the futurity.

Google World displays your address information as icons in the 3D viewer. You tin can edit the properties of these placemarks as you lot would any other placemark.

Import images

You lot can open GIS imagery files to project images embedded with brandish information over specific map coordinates in the 3D viewer. Files using NAD83 projection are not supported by Google Earth.

  • TIFF (.tif), including GeoTiff and compressed TIFF files
  • National Imagery Manual Format (.ntf)
  • Erdas Imagine Images (.img)

Other image files

You can as well import images if you manually edit their coordinates for correct positioning. Imagery files without the correct project information will not be accurately re-projected.

  • Portable Network Graphic (.png)
  • Joint Photographic Expert (.jpg)
  • Atlantis MFF Raster (.hdr)
  • PCIDSK Database File (.pix)
  • Portable Pixmap Format (.pnm)
  • Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp)

Open GIS images

You tin can open GIS images in Google World to view them over a map image.

  1. Open up your computer, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open up. And so, choose the file y'all desire to import.The overlay edit window appears.
  3. Set the location of the new overlay in any folder within the 'Places' panel.
  4. Choose the properties for the GIS prototype:
  • The reprojected epitome is saved as an overlay. The prototype is saved under the Google Earth directory on your hard drive. The name of the PNG file is based on the source file proper noun and the scaling or cropping parameters selected when importing the overlay. (See below for more than data on scaling or cropping an image.
  • For larger image files, reprojection can take some time. If yous have cropped or scaled an input image, or if yous are reprojecting an image that uses more texture retention, y'all will see a progress meter while the reprojection occurs. Yous can cancel the functioning at whatever time.
  • Images that contain no projection information are treated equally ordinary overlay files. You can position the image manually as yous would an overlay image.
  • Images that contain incorrect or unsupported projection information will not be imported. A dialog box indicates that the reprojection cannot be performed and the prototype will not be imported.

Save GIS images

Once you take imported imagery data, you tin can save content changes fabricated to the imported GIS data:

Motility the imported imagery to remain in your 'My Places' folder. If you accept already placed the imagery overlay within the 'My Places' folder, any changes you make to it are automatically saved and viewable when you lot start Google Earth.

Save the imagery overlay as a KMZ file. If you wish to remove the imported imagery from your 'My Places' folder:

  1. Right-click the item and select Save Place As from the pop-upwards card.
  2. So, salvage the GIS overlay as a KMZ file to your computer'due south hard drive or other accessible file location.
  3. Delete the overlay from your 'My Places' listing and open information technology when you demand information technology.

Import vector information

You lot can import files with points, lines, paths, and polygons onto your maps.

  1. Open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open.
  3. Select the type of file you lot want to import or choose All information import formats.

Once imported, the vector elements appear in the 3D viewer and the imported file is listed nether the 'Temporary Places' folder.

Annotation: If y'all don't use a style template and your information does not contain a 'Name' field, the beginning available field that contains text is used every bit the label for data.

Utilize third party vector data

About third political party GIS vector information comes every bit a collection of support files. If expected data does not display in the 3D viewer, it might be due to missing support files.

Vector files and required support files:

  • MapInfo (TAB)
    • MAP ID
    • DAT
  • ESRI Shape (SHP)
    • SHX Index
    • PRJ (required if project is not WGS84)
    • DBF (attribute data)
  • Generic text files

Import generic text files

You can define your own bespeak data and import information technology using generic text files.

Generic text files must:

  • Accept named columns whose values are separated either by commas, spaces, or tabs.
  • Be saved every bit either CSV or TXT format.
  • Brandish coordinates as:
    • Degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS)
    • Decimal degrees (DDD)
    • Degrees, minutes, with decimal seconds (DMM)
  • Comprise i or more than fields that specify the location of the point on the earth.
  • Not use a mix of geographic coordinates and address fields in a single file.

Y'all can use latitude and longitude coordinates to betoken the position of the signal data in your text file.

Optional and Descriptive Fields

Y'all tin apply any number of fields in your custom data file to label and describe points in Google World Pro.

Optional fields can be divers as text or strings:

  • A string field can contain both numbers and alphabetic characters.
  • Strings must be either enclosed in quotation marks or contain white space so that it tin cannot be interpreted every bit a number.

With style templates, you tin utilise these field types to create useful visual effects in the 3D viewer such as graphs or color-coding of information based on the values in the fields:

  • Integer
  • Floating signal value

Utilize a style template

You tin utilise a style template to vector information that contains fields you want to have displayed in the 3D viewer.

  • Style templates can only be applied to placemarks that contain extended schema data, such as those imported in a vector data file.
  • You tin use the same style template for dissimilar information that has the aforementioned fields if the template settings are adjusted to correspond the information properly.

To utilise a style template:

  1. Subsequently yous import information to your 'Places' panel, select the information folder and click Edit and then Employ Style Template.
  2. ClickUse existing template.
  3. In the 'Compatible templates' listing, cull the style template you desire to employ to your data set.
  4. To edit the mode template, clickEdit selected template and thenOK.
  5. Choose a field from your data that you want to use as a name, or label, for your data. Annotation: This proper name appears in the 3D viewer and in the Places console that lists the data points.
  6. Click Color to map an element of your data to color styles.
  7. Click Icon to map an element of your information to i or more than icons.
  8. Click Top to map a top value to a data element.
  9. Click OK.

You'll encounter your data and defined values in the 3D viewer.

Map data fields to different features

Map color styles

You can utilize colour to selected fields in your imported information. In this case, color is applied to the feature depending upon the type of information imported:

  • Icons are colored with indicate information
  • Lines are colored when applying to lines or paths
  • Solid polygons are colored with shape data

Use the color style to color these elements in a meaningful way depending upon both the data blazon and the field data within the entire set.

Apply a unmarried color for all features

If yous desire to use one color for all the points or lines from your imported data, select the 'Use single color' option. And so, click the colored square next to the option. From the color selector, choose a color or define your ain colour to apply to the data.

Employ random colors

To use a variety of colors that are applied randomly by Google Earth Pro, select the 'Use random colors' option. If you lot are likewise supplying an icon for point information, the color is added to the existing colour of the icon.

Fix colors based on field values

If you want to compare features with a data fix, employ colors to define different field values.

Examples:

  • Set up a short range of colors based on the square footage of real manor listings.
  • Set a range of colors for shape files showing average household income.

Follow steps 1-six nether Utilize a manner template.

  1. Select the Fix colour from field option in the "Color" tab. So, cull a color from the Fix color dropdown. Here, y'all can choose either numeric fields or text fields from your data.
  2. To change the colour range, click each color block and set the starting and ending colour. Google Earth Pro calculates the range between the two colour values.
  3. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets.
  4. To display information elements for places based on color bucket, create subfolders.To show or hide the display of color groups, use the check box next to the folder. Annotation: But one sub-binder can exist assigned for either color or icon brandish.
  5. To contrary the order of the colour range and their element assignments, click Reverse order.
  6. Click OK to save your style template.

Map icons to point data

You tin can apply icons to fields in your data. Icons cannot exist mapped to line or shape data.

There are two ways to map icons to points:

  • Use same icon for all features
  • Set an icon from a field

Gear up icons to fields in your data

Customize icons for imported placemarks by a data field.

Follow steps ane-6 under Apply a style template.

  1. Select Set icon from field. Choose the field that you want to utilise icon labels to.
  2. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets. For each bucket defined, select an icon from the list.
  3. Create subfolders to display data elements for places based on color bucket.To show or hide the brandish of color groups, use the check box next to the binder. Note: Just one sub-folder tin be assigned for either colour or icon brandish.
  4. To change an individual bucket icon element, click the bucket to adjust the value or value range. Note: To adjust the spread of the data to your preference, modify the settings for numeric buckets.
  5. Click OK to save the mode template.

Map height values

After peak values are set, points, lines, or shapes are moved from ground level to the height defined for each information element.

  • If you map height to lines or shapes, the values you define work in combination with the colors divers.
  • If you map pinnacle to indicate data, those points are moved using a single pixel colored line to connect the icon from its elevated position to the ground. You can employ style settings to alter the width and color of lines.

Tiptop values for text fields

If the field you lot choose to map contains text data, the beginning viii unique fields are each divers in their own bucket. Just map height values to a field that has eight or fewer unique values.

Height values for numeric fields

When you map meridian values to a numeric data field, you lot tin can choose from two mapping methods:

  • Continuous : Uses the minimum and maximum values of a field to decide a minimum and maximum height display for the unabridged set. Use this method for smaller data sets where individual distinctions between points or shapes are easily visualized.
  • Split into buckets : Creates up to 8 summit groupings for your information. Apply this method for large information sets where continuously mapped heights are not easily visualized in the 3D viewer.

Edit style settings of map points

To make data points and lines easier to see in the 3D viewer, yous can edit the style settings for each bespeak to change the line thickness.

  1. Mouse over the point you want to modify. Then, select Backdrop (Windows, Linux) or Get Info(Mac).
  2. In the 'Mode, Color' section, modify the point's appearance every bit needed.
  3. Click OK.

Note: For big information sets, utilize changes to unabridged folders or subfolders.

Choose field types

When using color, icon, or height mapping for specific fields in your data set, you can define a number of buckets to show unlike ranges of data. You can choose two basic types of fields from your information when mapping color, icon, or height values.

Text (string) fields

If a field type contains non-numeric data, Google World Pro maps the first viii unique text fields to the way. If there are fewer than viii values in your data, each unique value is paired to a dissimilar color, icon, or summit. If there are more than than 8 values, the first viii unique values are mapped to a way, and the balance of the values are grouped together and mapped to a ninth style. For this reason, it typically is about useful to apply a style to text fields that incorporate pocket-sized unique sets.

Numeric fields

Numeric data fields are automatically spread out beyond the number of buckets that you select and include a count of items in each bucket. If you increment or subtract the number of buckets, the application automatically redistributes the number of elements in each saucepan.

Prepare field formatting errors

If yous are using a spreadsheet application to create your data, choose a numeric jail cell format. If you have numeric fields in your CSV saved from a spreadsheet, only the 'Fashion Template' wizard is not recognizing information technology every bit numeric, information technology might be due to wrong formatting.

To verify whether the bodily field is marked as text or numeric:

  1. Open up the CSV file in a simple text editor and expect at the field in question.
  2. If the field is enclosed in double quotation marks, and then information technology has been defined every bit text — even if at that place are only numbers inside the quotations.
  3. Remove the quotation marks manually from the file, or open your spreadsheet application and format the cells as numeric.
  4. So, salve the CSV information again.

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