Ron Lake – What is KML?
Link – What is KML? One could easily create a GML representation for , treating it as a GML feature. So far so good. What about using KML to represent other geographic features? It seems unsatisfactory...
View ArticleMinecraft, Second Life and Google Earth
This hilarious article on abandoned Universities in Second Life got me thinking about 3D worlds and GIS. Colleges were among those that bought the hype of the Linden Lab-developed virtual world. Many...
View Article10 Years Ago on Spatially Adjusted –“Ron Lake – What is KML?”
10 years ago, Google Earth was still somewhat unknown. It had its big coming out party with a natural disaster1 and people started doing amazing things with it. If there was one person back in 2005...
View ArticleArcMap Feature Layer to KML
Link – VBA code for Google Earth KML paths ArcObjects VBA code to take a feature layer, split it up into line segments, and then generate a valid KML file. It’s pretty basic, and you have to hard code...
View ArticleMore GIS to KML tools showing up in ArcScripts
Link – KML Home Companion 0.9 “This is an ArcMap extension designed to aid in creating KML format files for use in Google Earth. I tried to create the simplest program that would do the job, so there...
View ArticleKML Home Companion 2.0
Link – KML Home Companion (new 2.0) Jim Cser emailed me and let me know that KML Home Companion 2.0 is now available. The new features include on-the-fly Lat/Long conversion, and color picker tools....
View ArticleRon Lake – What is KML?
Link – What is KML? One could easily create a GML representation for , treating it as a GML feature. So far so good. What about using KML to represent other geographic features? It seems unsatisfactory...
View ArticleExport to KML Extension for ArcGIS 9.x
Link – Export_to_KML_V10 Export to KML is an extension developed for ArcGIS 9.x by the City of Portland, Bureau of Planning. The extension allows ArcGIS users to export any dataset in “keyhole markup...
View ArticleIssues with 3D models in Google Earth
Link – Google Earth St Paul’s and Digital Elevation Model I’ve been focused on using Google Earth for a GIS viewer, but some others have been looking at using it for 3D models. …problems have arisen...
View ArticleSpatialTau v1.2 – Tilting at the Shapefile
SpatialTau is my weekly newsletter that goes out every Wednesday. The archive shows up in my blog a month after the newsletter is published. If you’d like to subscribe, please do so here. Tilting at...
View Article10 Years Ago on Spatially Adjusted –“Ron Lake – What is KML?”
10 years ago, Google Earth was still somewhat unknown. It had its big coming out party with a natural disaster1 and people started doing amazing things with it. If there was one person back in 2005...
View ArticleGIS Data Formats and My Stubborn Opinons
Taking this break I’ve been looking over my spatial data and trying to figure out how to best organize it. The largest public project I manage is the GeoJSON Ballparks and this one is easy to manage...
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