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I pulled all of the store locations from the Jimmy John’s website and then used PostGIS to create a three mile buffer (circle) around each store. We asked blog writer Sean Maday how the map and KML were made and he told us: There is an online map provided, but it is best viewed in Google Earth by downloading this KML file. sandwich restaurant chain Jimmy John’s, which requires their deli employees to sign non-compete agreements. Jimmy John’s non-compete zones in Google Earth ‘Download KML’ link – loads the map in the ‘Places’ pane and it is saveable.įiled Under: Google Earth Tips Tagged With: google maps gallery, KML View in Google Earth button – loads the map in the ‘Layers’ pane and cannot be saved.Ģ. The same map shows all layers in Google Earth when viewed using the first method.ġ.

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Also, using the second method, there is the option to download the KML for a particular layer, and in some cases such as this map the only layer available by this method is the map legend, which isn’t very useful. However, not all maps show the ‘View in Google Earth’ button (such as this one ) and many maps have the ‘Download KML’ option greyed out (this includes the ‘Latest Google Earth Imagery Updates’ map). This downloads a KML file that can be viewed in Google Earth and loads in the ‘Places’ pane and can be saved to ‘My Places’ or exported to KML. Select ‘Download KML’ from the drop down menu.

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The second way to get a map into Google Earth from the Maps Gallery, is by clicking the ‘Share’ button which looks like three dots with lines between them, and is found near the top right corner of the map when viewed in the gallery, or if you have opened the map to full screen it is in the map key near the top left. The downside is that you cannot even save the link, so if you need to view the Map again at a later date, you need to reopen the downloaded ‘map.kml’ file. We believe the purpose of this is a form of copy protection. It is impossible to save it in Google Earth, or export it to KML. This will download a KML file named ‘map.kml’ and uses a special type of network link that shows the KML under the ‘Layers’ pane in Google Earth instead of the usual ‘Places’. The first is by simply clicking the button near the bottom right corner of the map that says ‘View in Google Earth’. There are two different ways to get Maps from the Maps Gallery into Google Earth. There are also a few, such as the collection from the SETI Institute that we showed you, that give a much better global perspective when viewed in Google Earth. Although the maps can be viewed directly in the Maps Gallery, many of them are much better viewed with Google Earth, especially for maps that have a lot of detail. The Maps Gallery hosts an impressive collection of maps. In February this year, Google launched the Google Maps Gallery. Viewing maps from the Maps Gallery in Google Earth We would love it if Google were to include in the metadata the imagery provider and whether it is satellite imagery or aerial imagery.įiled Under: Site News Tagged With: imagery update, KML, New Google Earth layers, satellite imagery, voyager layer

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We had to figure out how to export XML from Excel, and with a little help with the colour scheme from this site we were able to produce this KML file. We can also get a better overall picture of the age of the imagery by counting the images by year: YearĪnd breaking 2015 down into months: MonthĪnother fun thing we can do is reproduce the KML colour coded by date. The newest is a pair of images captured on June 5th, 2015, in Hunan Province, China. This is one of many old images in the region that were added by Google to help aid workers in the region in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake. The oldest is a strip of imagery captured on November 5th 2010, in Tibet, China. Now we can find out which is the oldest and newest image in the collection. We then combined them into one spreadsheet. To do this, we exported each continent as a KML file, renamed them to *.xml and then opened them in Excel as XML files. In our previous post on this layer we used this website to extract the areas of the different images and then used MS Excel to work out the total areas of the new imagery by continent: ContinentĪnother thing we can do is get the dates of the imagery into Excel. Today, we are having a look at what sort of things can be done when you have direct access to the data. Although it was possible to view it in Google Earth, there was no way to save it as KML.

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Previously, Google would release update maps via a Google map. One notable feature of the new layers is that they can be put into your ‘My Places’ and then exported to KML. A couple of weeks ago we had a look at Google Earth’s new ‘Satellite imagery updates’ layer.

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