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Create Your KML File

Lecturer: Wang Yaohui

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Still Stru

ggling with Your Homework?

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Today you may solve your problems!!

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Course Outline

• Review KML

• Software Introduction

• Tips reminding

• Software Manipulation

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KML Review

What is KML?

KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard.

Source: KML Home

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What Geographical features can be added by KML

• Placemarks

• Groundoverlays

• Paths

• Polygons

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HTML codes of each features

• Placemarks

• Descriptive HTML in Placemarks

• Ground Overlays

• Paths

• Polygons

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You may not need to do the coding, but need to know it!

Even you have no idea about what am I talking……You still can achieve your project!

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Software Introduction

Let’s play with KML Editor

Go to our homepage!

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After installing, you will see this logo!

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If I Want to Create a KML file for My Kilimanjaro Tour!

1.Activate Google Earth

2.Fly to Kilimanjaro

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You can see the latitude and longitude changing!!

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1.Click it!

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2.Type your KML file name and add your placemarks(if you want to add more than 1 placemark, click the right button of your mouse and add it as above figure)

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3.I do believe you know how to use MS Word!!3

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4.And also MSN!!

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Click it!!

And past the embed codes here!!

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What is embed codes?

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Choose the style as you may like!

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Now……It’s show time!!!!

31Switch your Google Earth window to here!!!

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OH….My God!!! I loose my Google ‘’Earth’’!!!

33Don’t panic! You can ‘’Undock’’ it from KML Editor.

34Congratulation! You save the Earth!!......XD

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Use the Crosshair to navigate your

geotag target!

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You can decide whether preview it or not on Google

Earth.

But….please do remember SAVE

it!

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Email to me then I can upload your KML or KMZ to here.

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Also you can try to check it on Google Map

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And use Google My map to add more features on it!

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Now……………………………

It’s Your Show Time!