Import & change map data

These features are only bachelor in Google Earth Pro.

Import spreadsheet data

To add location data from a spreadsheet into Google Earth, import the latitude and longitude info. You'll need a text file that is delimited, which means each line is a separate piece of coordinates info. Every location that y'all 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 similar to practise importing data, you tin download a sample CSV file to use with the steps. Or follow these steps with your own CSV file.

  1. On your calculator, open Google Globe Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Browse to the location of the CSV file and open it.
  4. In the box that appears, next to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Utilise the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly and click Next.
  7. Next to "This dataset does non contain latitude/longitude information," leave the box unchecked.
  8. Select the fields in your spreadsheet that comprise the breadth and longitude data and click Next.
    Optional: Specify the type of each field in your dataset.
  9. Click End. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  10. To apply a mode template, click Yep.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Create a new style template, or utilize a previously generated template.

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

Import addresses

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

Guidelines for importing addresses

  • You lot can only import addresses located within the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, French republic, Italian republic, Germany, and Spain.
  • You cannot use an address that contains a P.O. box.
  • Single-accost field: You can define the street, city, state, country, and zip code in a single field.
  • Multiple address fields: You can too ascertain street, urban center, state, country, and zip lawmaking in multiple fields.
  • Fractional address default values: If some of your points have partial addresses, you can use the information import wizard to define default values for missing fields, such every bit state or zilch lawmaking.

Import address information from a CSV file

If you would like to practice 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 computer, open Google World Pro.
  2. Click File and then Import.
  3. Scan to the location of the CSV file and open up it.
  4. In the message that appears, next to Field Type, chooseDelimited.
  5. Next to Delimited, chooseComma.
  6. Use the preview pane to ensure your data has imported correctly.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Next to "This dataset does not contain breadth/longitude information," check the box and click Next.
  9. Choose "Addresses are cleaved into multiple fields."
  10. Under "Select Address Field(due south)," look over the names to make sure they're correct and clickNext.
  11. Confirm the listing of fields and the type of data selected for each and click Back.
  12. Click Cease. Google Earth begins geocoding your data.
  13. To utilise a mode template, click Yes.
  14. Click OK.

If yous like, save the template equally a file (.kst) that y'all can employ in the time to come.

Google Globe displays your accost data as icons in the 3D viewer. You can edit the properties of these placemarks as you would any other placemark.

Import images

Yous can open 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 Earth.

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

Other image files

You can also import images if yous manually edit their coordinates for correct positioning. Imagery files without the correct projection data will not be accurately re-projected.

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

Open GIS images

Yous tin open GIS images in Google Earth to view them over a map epitome.

  1. Open your calculator, open Google Earth Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open. So, choose the file you want to import.The overlay edit window appears.
  3. Set the location of the new overlay in any binder inside the 'Places' panel.
  4. Choose the properties for the GIS image:
  • The reprojected image is saved equally an overlay. The paradigm is saved under the Google Globe directory on your difficult drive. The name of the PNG file is based on the source file name and the scaling or cropping parameters selected when importing the overlay. (See below for more information on scaling or cropping an prototype.
  • For larger image files, reprojection can take some time. If y'all have cropped or scaled an input image, or if you are reprojecting an paradigm that uses more texture memory, yous will run across a progress meter while the reprojection occurs. You tin can abolish the performance at whatever time.
  • Images that contain no project data are treated as ordinary overlay files. Y'all tin position the paradigm manually as you would an overlay image.
  • Images that contain incorrect or unsupported projection data volition not exist imported. A dialog box indicates that the reprojection cannot be performed and the image will not be imported.

Salvage GIS images

One time you take imported imagery data, you can relieve content changes made to the imported GIS data:

Motion the imported imagery to remain in your 'My Places' folder. If yous have already placed the imagery overlay within the 'My Places' folder, whatever changes you make to it are automatically saved and viewable when y'all start Google Earth.

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

  1. Right-click the particular and select Save Identify Equally from the pop-upwards menu.
  2. Then, save the GIS overlay as a KMZ file to your computer's hard drive or other attainable file location.
  3. Delete the overlay from your 'My Places' list and open it when you need it.

Import vector data

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

  1. Open Google World Pro.
  2. Click File and then Open.
  3. Select the blazon of file y'all 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' binder.

Note: If you don't use a style template and your information does non incorporate a 'Proper name' field, the start available field that contains text is used every bit the label for information.

Apply third party vector data

Most third party GIS vector information comes as a drove 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 information)
  • Generic text files

Import generic text files

You 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.
  • Brandish coordinates as:
    • Degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS)
    • Decimal degrees (DDD)
    • Degrees, minutes, with decimal seconds (DMM)
  • Contain one or more fields that specify the location of the point on the earth.
  • Not utilise a mix of geographic coordinates and accost fields in a unmarried file.

You can use latitude and longitude coordinates to indicate the position of the point data in your text file.

Optional and Descriptive Fields

You lot can apply any number of fields in your custom data file to characterization and describe points in Google Globe Pro.

Optional fields can exist defined equally text or strings:

  • A cord field can incorporate both numbers and alphabetic characters.
  • Strings must exist either enclosed in quotation marks or comprise white space so that it cannot be interpreted as a number.

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

  • Integer
  • Floating point value

Apply a style template

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

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

To employ a style template:

  1. After y'all import information to your 'Places' console, select the information folder and click Edit and then Use Manner Template.
  2. ClickUse existing template.
  3. In the 'Compatible templates' listing, choose the style template you want to apply to your data set up.
  4. To edit the style template, clickEdit selected template and thenOK.
  5. Choose a field from your information that you want to use as a proper name, or characterization, for your information. 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 data to color styles.
  7. Click Icon to map an element of your data to ane or more than icons.
  8. Click Height to map a pinnacle value to a data element.
  9. Click OK.

Y'all'll see your information and defined values in the 3D viewer.

Map data fields to different features

Map color styles

Y'all tin can use color to selected fields in your imported data. In this case, color is practical 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

Use the color style to color these elements in a meaningful mode depending upon both the data blazon and the field information inside the unabridged set up.

Use a single colour for all features

If you desire to utilise one color for all the points or lines from your imported data, select the 'Use single color' pick. Then, click the colored foursquare adjacent to the option. From the color selector, choose a color or ascertain your own colour to apply to the data.

Employ random colors

To employ a diverseness of colors that are applied randomly by Google Earth Pro, select the 'Employ random colors' option. If you are also supplying an icon for signal information, the color is added to the existing color of the icon.

Set colors based on field values

If you want to compare features with a data ready, use colors to define unlike field values.

Examples:

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

Follow steps i-6 nether Use a style template.

  1. Select the Prepare color from field option in the "Color" tab. So, choose a color from the Fix colour dropdown. Here, you can choose either numeric fields or text fields from your data.
  2. To change the color range, click each colour 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 display data elements for places based on color bucket, create subfolders.To show or hide the display of color groups, use the bank check box side by side to the folder. Annotation: Only ane sub-folder can be assigned for either color or icon display.
  5. To reverse the order of the colour range and their chemical element assignments, click Reverse club.
  6. Click OK to save your mode template.

Map icons to bespeak data

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

There are two ways to map icons to points:

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

Prepare icons to fields in your data

Customize icons for imported placemarks by a data field.

Follow steps 1-6 nether Employ a way template.

  1. Select Set icon from field. Choose the field that you desire to utilize icon labels to.
  2. To group a range of numeric fields, choose a number of buckets. For each saucepan defined, select an icon from the list.
  3. Create subfolders to brandish data elements for places based on color saucepan.To show or hide the display of color groups, use the cheque box next to the folder. Annotation: Merely one sub-folder can be assigned for either color or icon display.
  4. To change an private bucket icon chemical element, click the bucket to accommodate the value or value range. Annotation: To adapt the spread of the data to your preference, modify the settings for numeric buckets.
  5. Click OK to save the style template.

Map tiptop values

Later peak values are prepare, points, lines, or shapes are moved from footing level to the height defined for each data chemical element.

  • If y'all map height to lines or shapes, the values you define work in combination with the colors divers.
  • If you map height to indicate information, those points are moved using a single pixel colored line to connect the icon from its elevated position to the ground. Yous can use mode settings to modify the width and colour of lines.

Height values for text fields

If the field yous choose to map contains text information, the beginning viii unique fields are each divers in their ain bucket. Merely map acme values to a field that has eight or fewer unique values.

Height values for numeric fields

When you map height values to a numeric data field, you tin choose from 2 mapping methods:

  • Continuous : Uses the minimum and maximum values of a field to determine a minimum and maximum acme brandish for the entire set. Use this method for smaller data sets where individual distinctions between points or shapes are hands visualized.
  • Divide into buckets : Creates upwards to eight height groupings for your data. Utilise 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, you tin edit the fashion settings for each point to modify the line thickness.

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

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

Cull field types

When using color, icon, or elevation mapping for specific fields in your data prepare, you can define a number of buckets to show different ranges of data. You tin choose 2 basic types of fields from your data when mapping color, icon, or peak values.

Text (string) fields

If a field blazon contains non-numeric data, Google World Pro maps the first 8 unique text fields to the way. If at that place are fewer than 8 values in your data, each unique value is paired to a dissimilar color, icon, or height. If there are more than 8 values, the kickoff 8 unique values are mapped to a manner, and the rest of the values are grouped together and mapped to a 9th fashion. For this reason, it typically is almost useful to apply a style to text fields that contain small 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 increase or decrease the number of buckets, the application automatically redistributes the number of elements in each saucepan.

Ready field formatting errors

If you are using a spreadsheet application to create your data, choose a numeric cell format. If yous have numeric fields in your CSV saved from a spreadsheet, but the 'Manner Template' magician is not recognizing it equally numeric, it might exist due to incorrect formatting.

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

  1. Open up the CSV file in a simple text editor and look at the field in question.
  2. If the field is enclosed in double quotation marks, then it has been divers every bit text — even if in that location are merely numbers within the quotations.
  3. Remove the quotation marks manually from the file, or open your spreadsheet application and format the cells every bit numeric.
  4. So, relieve the CSV data again.

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