How To Digitize Shorelines Using Google Earth Plus
Making a Map in Google Earth
This is a very popular series of images taken from an earlier post. Making a map from Google Earth imagery, more precisely, from Digital Globe (DG) imagery found in Google Earth is detailed in the above image collection. If you are fortunate enough to have your specific area of interest covered in DG's hi-res imagery, you can construct an exquisite vector map using it while in Google Earth Plus. GE Plus is the $20 per year version of Google's popular earth-viewing software. Within the software is the capability to construct rudimentary maps. I use GE Plus to construct highly detailed shorelines and land use areas of some of my project islands. I call these shorelines HRVS or Hi-Res Vector Shorelines.
The "How To Digitize" is displayed in the set of images that accompany this post. The process is simple and the vectors constructed can be directly imported into most popular mapping packages. Using a free translater tool, GE Path, KML files can be imported into MS Exel where one can easily create ARC Ungenerate format vector mapping files. These vector files can be imported into many other less well-known mapping packages, including my personal favorite, Marplot.
Enjoy!
Labels: Digital Globe, digitize, GE Path, Google Earth Plus, hi-res imagery, HRVS, Marplot, vectors
