Spatial Dynamics

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Forcing Garmin and Google Earth to a (metaphorical) Negotiating Table

April 30th, 2008 No Comments

It’s probably a frustrating experience for most people when they attempt to export their GPS tracks into Google Earth.

There are probably other ways to do this without using paying for Google Earth Plus or using professional GIS software, but I haven’t found any obvious solutions. I think a person’s best bet is to investigate GPSBabel [...]

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Bringing shapefiles into Google Earth - .shp to .kmz

April 25th, 2008 No Comments

Although there are several commercial software programs for converting shapefiles into .kmz or .kml formats, here is free program created by a student at the University of Arizona.
The program is designed for use in Google Earth 3, there will be minor symbology problems if the outputs are used in Google Earth 4 (large pushpins will [...]

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