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    This document discusses how to import Google Earth data into a GIS. It describes how to digitize features in Google Earth and save them as KML files. It then explains how to use a tool to convert those KML files into shapefile features that can be loaded and used in a GIS. The document provides step-by-step instructions for digitizing features in Google Earth, saving them as KML, and using the conversion tool to transform the KML into shapefile layers. It also discusses how georeferenced screenshots from Google Earth can be imported and used as imagery layers in a GIS.

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    This document discusses how to import Google Earth data into a GIS. It describes how to digitize features in Google Earth and save them as KML files. It then explains how to use a tool to convert those KML files into shapefile features that can be loaded and used in a GIS. The document provides step-by-step instructions for digitizing features in Google Earth, saving them as KML, and using the conversion tool to transform the KML into shapefile layers. It also discusses how georeferenced screenshots from Google Earth can be imported and used as imagery layers in a GIS.

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    Importing Google

    Earth Data into a GIS


    Jason Parent
    [email protected]

    Center for Land use Education and Research

    Google Earth
    Provides

    free access to a rich resource


    of satellite imagery and geographic data
    Excellent for visualization
    On-screen digitizing capabilities allow
    mapping of features
    Features can be saved as kml files
    kml files cannot be directly loaded into a
    GIS
    2

    The Convert KML to SHP


    tool
    Converts

    kml features to shapefile features

    Names and descriptions of kml features are


    retained in the shapefile
    Easy

    to use - run as a tool in ArcToolbox


    Runs on ArcView 9.2 no extensions
    required.
    Works with kml files created by Google 4.2
    May not work with older versions

    Creating features in Google


    Earth
    Create

    a folder to contain the features


    Right-click

    Enter single
    line description
    4

    Creating features in Google


    Earth

    Create

    feature in the appropriate folder


    polygon

    name
    Select folder

    point

    line

    description
    5

    Saving features to a KML file


    Save

    the entire folder as a kml file (do not


    save as a kmz file)
    Folder can contain more than one feature
    type.
    Right-click

    Running the Convert KML to SHP


    tool
    Add

    toolbox to ArcToolbox
    Input kml file

    Feature type

    Output shapefile
    7

    Google Polygons to Shapefile

    Shapefile is not projecte


    8

    Feature Attributes

    Using Google Earth Imagery in a


    GIS
    Google

    Earth imagery cannot be


    downloaded.
    Screen captures can be georeferenced
    and used in a GIS.
    Reference points are needed to georeference a screen capture.
    Features digitized in Google Earth can
    be used as references.
    10

    Georeferencing Snapshots

    11

    Saving the Georeferenced


    Image

    12

    13

    Downloads
    The

    Convert KML to SHP tool, as well


    as other geospatial tools, can be
    downloaded through the Center for
    Land use Education and Research
    (CLEAR) website:

    http://www.clear.uconn.edu/tools/geospatial

    /KML_to_SHP_ArcGIS.zip

    14

    Questions?

    Importing Google
    Earth Data into a GIS
    Jason Parent
    [email protected]

    Center for Land use Education and Research

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