Personalizing Google Earth With Maps And Points Of Interest Lecturer - Jeff Neely

Topics How to download Google Earth Navigating Google Earth How to add a map overlay How to add a placemark

Why Use Google Earth? Pair historical maps with a modern map to locate features Provide a visual reference of locations

Google Earth download site:

Uncheck “Include Google Chrome …” if you do not want to install the Google Chrome browser, then click on “Agree and Download” button

Open Google Earth

Menu Bar

Search Panel

Toolbar Buttons

3D Viewer

Navigation Controls

Places Panel

Layers Panel

Expand “My Places”

Check placemark to view. Uncheck to hide placemark.

To adjust a placemark’s properties, right click on placemark name

Left click on “Properties”

Placemark popup properties window

Use the “File” dialog box to save the placemark or folder to your computer. Enter the name for the new file, and click Save in the dialog box. The placemark or the folder is saved to that location with an extension of “.kmz”

Double click on placemark name to zoom in

Uncheck placemark name to hide the map layer

Double click on location to zoom in on map

Or use the navigation control to zoom in or out on map

For 3D view, left click and drag Streetview icon to desired location

Release left mouse button to enter street view

Streetview

Left click on 3D Viewer and drag the mouse for another angle of the same street

Left click to exit street view

Reset tilt and orientation of 3D Viewer pane

For help on using Google Earth

Left click on “Getting started and basics”

Left click on “Basic features user guide” or “Google Earth tutorials”

Working With Map Overlays Maximum resolution Map sources Historical maps Topo maps Acceptable file formats for overlay files jpg bmp tif tga png jpeg gif tiff ppm pgm

For maximum map resolution, left click on About Google Earth

About Google Earth popup window, Max Texture Size 4096x4096

Working With Map Overlays The Max Texture Size is in pixels Example: 4096 px X 4096 px Images that are larger than the Max Texture Size will be truncated Resize the map image using an image editing program such as: Adobe Photoshop Corel PaintShop Pro Ulead PhotoImpact Pixir Editor (Free online program) -

David Ramsey Map Collection

University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

To add a map overlay, left click on the Overlay button on the Toolbar

New Image Overlay popup window

Name the overlay image

To add the map image, left click on the Browse button

Select the map image file from the file manager popup window

Left click on the Open button

The map overlay will appear

Provide a description of the map

Drag the overlay window out of the way

Adjust the overlay opacity using the opacity slider

Stretch the overlay using the green corner markers

Or the green edge markers

Move the image using the green center marker

Rotate the image using the green diamond marker

Overlay after adjustments, 100% opacity

Drag the overlay window back and click on the OK button

Completed map overlay

Zoomed in and displaying placemarks

To add a placemark, left click on the Placemark button on the Toolbar

New Placemark popup window

Name the placemark

Provide a description of the placemark

Drag the placemark to the desired position, then click on the OK button

Drag the placemark to the desired position

Click on the OK button

Completed placemark

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