{"id":32181,"date":"2017-08-16T03:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=32181"},"modified":"2017-08-16T07:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:27:57","slug":"google-maps-create-map-to-google-earth-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/google-maps-create-map-to-google-earth-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Create Map to Google Earth Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gm_cm_ge.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Google Maps Create Map to Google Earth Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gm_cm_ge-494of.jpg\" title=\"Google Maps Create Map to Google Earth Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Maps Create Map to Google Earth Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve long been fascinated by maps, and when we read in the September 2017 edition of <i>PC &#038; Tech Authority<\/i> (&#8220;Do More With Maps&#8221; by Nik Rawlinson) of a methodology to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>log into <a target=_blank title='Google search engine' href='http:\/\/www.google.com'>Google<\/a> &#8230; for us, that means logging into <a target=_blank title='Gmail' href='http:\/\/www.gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>visit <a target=_blank title='Create a New Map' href='http:\/\/mymaps.google.com'>Create a New Map<\/a> link (at HTTP:\/\/mymaps.google.com webpage) under the auspices of <a target=_blank title='Google Maps' href='http:\/\/maps.google.com'>Google Maps<\/a> (for our online (web) bits of this work) &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>tried some of the simpler bits of the great range of functionality &#8230; can be very personalized and tailored &#8230; then turned our attention to accountability &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>topmost three dots menu option &#8220;Export to KML&#8221; is our link to Downloading (which is the way it gets to your desktop) and to the desktop view of the Map (capital &#8220;M&#8221; because it is the one we did) &#8230; needing &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Google Earth' href='https:\/\/www.google.com\/earth\/'>Google Earth<\/a> (which we needed to install as a Mac OS X desktop app) &#8230; and so &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Finder open of the resultant *.KML file in the Downloads folder opens up Google Earth open to your customized and personalized Map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; well &#8230; we were quite excited &#8230; and, well, gee gosh &#8230; find out that to walk through three supporting walls from the front door directly to the kitchen stove was a crow&#8217;s flight of 14 metres &#8230; well &#8230;. what can one (bird, looking a bit the worse for wear) say.  Thanks, heaps, Google, for some great *.KML downloadable and accountable map data.<\/p>\n<p>And so we recorded some of what we did today in a PDF <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gm_cm_ge.pdf\" title=\"Click picture\">slideshow<\/a> for your perusal.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stop Press<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The other mode of perusal is that you can upload the *.KML file to a web server and access via &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank title='Google Earth link to our map' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/136Darley.kml'>HTTP:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/136Darley.kml<\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; the use of which probably relies on Google Earth being installed, and perhaps, that you are logged into Google (not sure here?!).<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d32181' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d32181\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/google\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d32181' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve long been fascinated by maps, and when we read in the September 2017 edition of PC &#038; Tech Authority (&#8220;Do More With Maps&#8221; by Nik Rawlinson) of a methodology to &#8230; log into Google &#8230; for us, that means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/google-maps-create-map-to-google-earth-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[2305,360,407,503,513,524,527,745,2306,1200,1319],"class_list":["post-32181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-tutorials","tag-customize","tag-download","tag-export","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-earth","tag-google-maps","tag-map","tag-personalize","tag-stop-press","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32199,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32181\/revisions\/32199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}