Import & change map information

These features are only available in Google Earth Pro.

Import spreadsheet data

To add location data from a spreadsheet into Google Earth, import the latitude and longitude info. Yous'll need a text file that is delimited, which means each line is a split up slice 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 do importing data, you 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 up Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Scan to the location of the CSV file and open it.
  4. In the box that appears, adjacent to Field Type, cullDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly and click Next.
  7. Next to "This dataset does not incorporate latitude/longitude information," leave the box unchecked.
  8. Select the fields in your spreadsheet that incorporate the latitude and longitude data and click Next.
    Optional: Specify the blazon of each field in your dataset.
  9. Click Cease. Google Globe begins geocoding your data.
  10. To utilize a manner template, click Aye.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Create a new style template, or use a previously generated template.

You lot can conform the name, color, icon, and height for your placemark. If you like, save your selections as a template to use in the future.

Import addresses

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

Guidelines for importing addresses

  • You can only import addresses located within the United States, United kingdom, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, and Espana.
  • You lot cannot use an address that contains a P.O. box.
  • Unmarried-address field: You can ascertain the street, city, state, land, and zip code in a single field.
  • Multiple address fields: You tin can as well define street, city, state, state, and zip code in multiple fields.
  • Fractional address default values: If some of your points take fractional addresses, you can use the data import sorcerer to define default values for missing fields, such equally state or cipher lawmaking.

Import accost data from a CSV file

If yous would like to do importing data, you can download a sample CSV file to utilize with the steps. Or follow these steps with your own CSV file.

  1. On your computer, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Scan to the location of the CSV file and open it.
  4. In the bulletin that appears, next to Field Type, cullDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, cullComma.
  6. Utilise the preview pane to ensure your information has imported correctly.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Next to "This dataset does not incorporate latitude/longitude information," bank check the box and click Next.
  9. Choose "Addresses are broken into multiple fields."
  10. Nether "Select Accost Field(s)," look over the names to make certain they're right and clickSide by side.
  11. Confirm the list of fields and the type of data selected for each and click Back.
  12. Click Stop. Google World begins geocoding your information.
  13. To use a style template, click Yep.
  14. Click OK.

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

Google Globe displays your accost information equally icons in the 3D viewer. You lot tin can edit the backdrop of these placemarks as you would any other placemark.

Import images

Yous tin can open up GIS imagery files to project images embedded with display information over specific map coordinates in the 3D viewer. Files using NAD83 projection are not supported by Google World.

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

Other paradigm files

You tin can also import images if you manually edit their coordinates for correct positioning. Imagery files without the right projection data 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 up GIS images

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

  1. Open your figurer, open Google Globe Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open. And so, cull the file you want to import.The overlay edit window appears.
  3. Prepare the location of the new overlay in whatsoever folder inside the 'Places' panel.
  4. Choose the backdrop for the GIS epitome:
  • The reprojected image is saved as an overlay. The image is saved under the Google Globe directory on your hard drive. The proper noun of the PNG file is based on the source file name and the scaling or cropping parameters selected when importing the overlay. (Run across below for more information on scaling or cropping an image.
  • For larger image files, reprojection can have some time. If you have cropped or scaled an input prototype, or if you are reprojecting an image that uses more texture memory, you will run across a progress meter while the reprojection occurs. You can cancel the operation at whatsoever time.
  • Images that contain no projection information are treated every bit ordinary overlay files. You tin can position the image manually equally you 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 volition non be imported.

Relieve GIS images

In one case you accept imported imagery information, you tin can salvage content changes made to the imported GIS information:

Move the imported imagery to remain in your 'My Places' binder. If you take already placed the imagery overlay within the 'My Places' folder, whatsoever changes you brand to it are automatically saved and viewable when you start Google Globe.

Salve 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-up menu.
  2. And so, salvage the GIS overlay every bit a KMZ file to your computer's hard drive or other accessible file location.
  3. Delete the overlay from your 'My Places' list and open it when y'all need information technology.

Import vector information

You 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 y'all desire to import or choose All data import formats.

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

Note: If you don't utilise a style template and your data does not contain a 'Proper name' field, the showtime available field that contains text is used as the characterization for data.

Use 3rd party vector data

Most third political party GIS vector data comes as a collection of back up 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 projection is not WGS84)
    • DBF (attribute data)
  • Generic text files

Import generic text files

Yous tin can define your own point data and import it using generic text files.

Generic text files must:

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

You tin can use latitude and longitude coordinates to indicate the position of the signal information in your text file.

Optional and Descriptive Fields

Y'all can employ whatsoever number of fields in your custom data file to label and describe points in Google Earth Pro.

Optional fields tin 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 infinite so that it tin cannon be interpreted as a number.

With manner templates, you can utilize these field types to create useful visual effects in the 3D viewer such as graphs or color-coding of data based on the values in the fields:

  • Integer
  • Floating bespeak value

Utilise a manner template

You tin utilise a style template to vector data that contains fields y'all desire to have displayed in the 3D viewer.

  • Way templates can only be applied to placemarks that incorporate extended schema data, such every bit those imported in a vector data file.
  • You tin use the same style template for unlike data that has the same fields if the template settings are adjusted to represent the data properly.

To apply a style template:

  1. Afterward y'all import data to your 'Places' panel, select the data folder and click Edit and then Apply Style Template.
  2. ClickUse existing template.
  3. In the 'Compatible templates' list, choose the style template you want to utilize to your data set.
  4. To edit the style template, clickEdit selected template and thenOK.
  5. Choose a field from your data that yous want to use as a name, or label, for your data. Notation: This name appears in the 3D viewer and in the Places panel that lists the information points.
  6. Click Color to map an element of your information to color styles.
  7. Click Icon to map an element of your data to one or more than icons.
  8. Click Tiptop to map a height value to a data element.
  9. Click OK.

Yous'll see your data and defined values in the 3D viewer.

Map data fields to different features

Map color styles

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

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

Apply the colour style to color these elements in a meaningful fashion depending upon both the data blazon and the field data inside the entire set.

Use a single color for all features

If you desire to use one color for all the points or lines from your imported data, select the 'Use unmarried color' selection. Then, click the colored foursquare next to the option. From the color selector, choose a colour or ascertain your ain color to employ to the data.

Utilize random colors

To utilize a multifariousness of colors that are applied randomly by Google Earth Pro, select the 'Use random colors' choice. If you are also supplying an icon for point data, the color is added to the existing colour of the icon.

Set colors based on field values

If you want to compare features with a data prepare, utilize colors to define dissimilar field values.

Examples:

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

Follow steps 1-6 nether Apply a style template.

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

Map icons to point information

Y'all tin use icons to fields in your data. Icons cannot be mapped to line or shape information.

There are two ways to map icons to points:

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

Set up icons to fields in your data

Customize icons for imported placemarks by a information field.

Follow steps one-6 under Employ a style template.

  1. Select Prepare icon from field. Choose the field that you want to employ icon labels to.
  2. To group a range of numeric fields, cull a number of buckets. For each bucket defined, select an icon from the listing.
  3. Create subfolders to display information elements for places based on color bucket.To show or hide the display of colour groups, use the check box side by side to the binder. Note: Only one sub-folder can be assigned for either color or icon brandish.
  4. To alter an individual bucket icon element, click the bucket to accommodate the value or value range. Note: To conform the spread of the data to your preference, modify the settings for numeric buckets.
  5. Click OK to relieve the style template.

Map height values

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

  • If you map height to lines or shapes, the values you define work in combination with the colors defined.
  • If you lot map tiptop to point data, those points are moved using a unmarried pixel colored line to connect the icon from its elevated position to the ground. You lot tin can employ style settings to modify the width and color of lines.

Acme values for text fields

If the field you choose to map contains text information, the first 8 unique fields are each defined in their ain bucket. But map height values to a field that has 8 or fewer unique values.

Height values for numeric fields

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

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

Edit manner settings of map points

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

  1. Mouse over the point you want to alter. And so, select Properties (Windows, Linux) or Get Info(Mac).
  2. In the 'Fashion, Color' section, alter the indicate's appearance as needed.
  3. Click OK.

Annotation: For big data sets, apply changes to entire folders or subfolders.

Cull field types

When using color, icon, or height mapping for specific fields in your information set up, you tin can define a number of buckets to show different ranges of data. Yous 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 Earth Pro maps the get-go 8 unique text fields to the style. If in that location are fewer than eight values in your data, each unique value is paired to a unlike color, icon, or height. If there are more than 8 values, the offset eight unique values are mapped to a manner, and the rest of the values are grouped together and mapped to a ninth fashion. For this reason, it typically is most useful to utilize a style to text fields that comprise small unique sets.

Numeric fields

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

Gear up field formatting errors

If you are using a spreadsheet application to create your information, choose a numeric cell format. If you take numeric fields in your CSV saved from a spreadsheet, but the 'Fashion Template' wizard is not recognizing it as numeric, it might exist due to incorrect formatting.

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

  1. Open the CSV file in a simple text editor and await at the field in question.
  2. If the field is enclosed in double quotation marks, then it has been defined as text — even if at that place are merely numbers within the quotations.
  3. Remove the quotation marks manually from the file, or open your spreadsheet awarding and format the cells as numeric.
  4. Then, save the CSV information again.

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