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Google Earth is a software released in 2005. GoogleEarth popularized the concept and use of Geographical Information Systems. It is not a fully fledged GIS but it provides very interesting features such as vector layer creation, measuring distances, styling data, visualization of Digital Elevation Model, visualization of 3D profiles, … But GoogleEarth is more than a software, it is an access platform to millions of very high resolution satellite images, pictures of every single streets in some cities, 3D modeling of building,…
Additionnaly, GoogleEarth development has generalized the use of a format of geographical data named ‘kml’. This open format allows to encode geographical features location and style in an efficient way.
In these series of tutorials we will see:
- How to create a KML file with the GoogleEarth interface
- How to create a KML file from scratch with a text editor
- How to embed rich content within balloons and style efficiently KML layers
- How to create or edit KML file with Python programming language -ADVANCED-
More important, we will see the strenghs and weaknesses of GoogleEarth and how to use it in a complementary way to TileMill.