Advanced manual of google earth for LKSH students

Google Earth (map)進階操作

How about your assignment?

Course outline

• Create your Fly Animation of Google Earth

• Manipulate KMZ and KML

錄製飛行動畫檔• Google Earth 飛行功能介紹• DemoStudio介紹• 實際操作• 上傳動畫檔• 將動畫插入個人網頁中

KML操作• KML介紹• KML格式簡介• 如何建立自己的 KML檔• 上傳 KML至個人網頁

Let’s Fly

• Tick the terrain check box

• Use the tilt slider to tilt the terrain toward a horizon view

• Ctrl+G----G-power

• Try to click the right bottom and left bottom of your mouse then drag the view in any direction .

How to Use DemoStudio

• Why use it?• Where to get it?• What functions would we use? Recorder and Player

Also see another tutorial

OK……Let’s do it!

It’s not e

asy!

But worth

doing well!

KML Tutorial

What is KML?

KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard.

Source: KML Home

What Geographical features can be added by KML

• Placemarks

• Groundoverlays

• Paths

• Polygons

HTML codes of each features

• Placemarks

• Descriptive HTML in Placemarks

• Ground Overlays

• Paths

• Polygons

You may not need to do the coding, but need to know it!

Create a KML for yourself

• Download the KML samples from Here

• Save it in your working folder

• Open it by wordPad or 小作家• Alter the coding lines you supposed

• Save as a new file and upload to your homepage or blog