Managing Data in Google Earth (Advanced)

Some sources of base data:

• Canada Open Government Portal (centralized portal where you can search for data from different ministries and government organizations)
• Canvec National Shapefile Data Series (1:1M National data sets, 1:250k and 1:50k Provincial data sets)
• Canada Lands Survey
• Manitoba Land Initiative
• Soil Landscapes of Canada Version 3.2

Try pasting the following KML code into My Places in Google Earth. It will produce the crosshairs screen overlay we demonstrated in the session. For more on creating and editing legends, logos, banners and screen overlays, see the Google Earth Outreach training site.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<ScreenOverlay>

<name>Simple crosshairs</name>

<visibility>0</visibility>

<description>This screen overlay uses fractional positioning to put the

image in the exact center of the screen</description>

<Icon>

<href>http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/crosshairs.png</href>

</Icon>

<overlayXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>

<screenXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>

<rotationXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>

<size x="0" y="0" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>

</ScreenOverlay>

</kml>