Google Maps Create Map to Google Earth Primer Tutorial

Google Maps Create Map to Google Earth Primer Tutorial

We’ve long been fascinated by maps, and when we read in the September 2017 edition of PC & Tech Authority (“Do More With Maps” by Nik Rawlinson) of a methodology to …

• log into Google … for us, that means logging into Gmail …
• visit Create a New Map link (at HTTP://mymaps.google.com webpage) under the auspices of Google Maps (for our online (web) bits of this work) …
• tried some of the simpler bits of the great range of functionality … can be very personalized and tailored … then turned our attention to accountability …
• topmost three dots menu option “Export to KML” is our link to Downloading (which is the way it gets to your desktop) and to the desktop view of the Map (capital “M” because it is the one we did) … needing …
• Google Earth (which we needed to install as a Mac OS X desktop app) … and so …
• Finder open of the resultant *.KML file in the Downloads folder opens up Google Earth open to your customized and personalized Map

… well … we were quite excited … and, well, gee gosh … find out that to walk through three supporting walls from the front door directly to the kitchen stove was a crow’s flight of 14 metres … well …. what can one (bird, looking a bit the worse for wear) say. Thanks, heaps, Google, for some great *.KML downloadable and accountable map data.

And so we recorded some of what we did today in a PDF slideshow for your perusal.

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The other mode of perusal is that you can upload the *.KML file to a web server and access via …


HTTP://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/Mac/136Darley.kml


… the use of which probably relies on Google Earth being installed, and perhaps, that you are logged into Google (not sure here?!).

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