Notice how the KML is also listed in the Places panel under your Temporary Places folder. Your GIS data has been converted to KML, and the data now appears in Google Earth. If you wish to save it for future use, click Save. This will keep the rivers clamped to the ground, following the terrain.Ī dialog box will appear, asking if you would like to save the style template you just created. Under the Height tab, keep Clamp features to ground selected. For this example, select a blue color, and click OK. In the Select Color dialog box, choose a color for the river dataset. This causes the color settings to appear. Under the Color tab, select to Use single color, and click on the color swatch to the right. This is the field in the shapefile that contains the names of the rivers. You can use the preview table to view which field contains the content you would like to use for the labels.įor this example, select “NAM” in the drop-down menu. Under the Name tab, choose the field in the shapefile that you would like to use for the name labels for the data in Google Earth. In the next Style Template Settings dialog box, you will create a style template for the rivers, which will include colors, labels, and icons. When you see this message, you can choose to import just a sample, restrict to your current view, or import all.Ī message will appear, asking if you would like to create a Style Template. tab) from the _Files of type menu, select your TAB file and click Open*.Ī message will appear, stating that the file contains more than 2500 features and could cause application performance degradation. shp)_ from the file type menu, select Rivers_in_Southeast_Asia.shp, and click Open*. Select your data's file type from the Files of type menu. Import a GIS shapefile, or other vector dataset

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