KML/KMZ (Transmitter Entirely)

The Export KML/KMZ command allows the substance abuser to export whatever loaded transmitter data sets to a KML/KMZ initialize file for usage with Google Earth.

When selected, the overlook displays the KML/KMZ Export Options dialog (pictured below) which allows the user to launch the export. The dialogue consists of a KML/KMZ Options panel, a Gridding panel, and an Exportation Bounds jury which allows the user to set up the portion of the loaded vector data they wish to export.

Filled Area Translucency

The Full Orbit Translucency surgical incision allows the user to control the point to which full polygons are gauzy in the created file.

Sport Descriptions

The Feature Descriptions section allows you to setup what is controlled in the verbal description for each feature in the generated file. You rear end pick out to include lonesome the feature description and links to any files associated with a feature, you lav choose to add attributes to this, or you can choose to provide your own HTML text to use for the feature verbal description.

If you use the Custom HTML School tex option, you can load the Hypertext markup language text from a file. Embed the values of attributes from the feature in the text by enclosing the attribute name in per centum signs, similar %ATTR_NAME%. In improver to the name of attributes, you can also specify <Feature Name>, <Feature Desc>, <Feature Type>, <Longitude>, or <Parallel> as the dimension name to get the feature display label, description, type name, stage longitude, or point latitude embedded in the result. If you need to plant an existent percent house in your ensue, simply use two percentage signs consecutively equally an escape sequence. Use Attribute option to insert and add together Attributes from the layer being exported to the HTML .

Additional Options

The pursual extra options are also available:

  • Character Encoding - this option controls the fictional character encryption value encoded in the header of the KML file. You will typically just keep the default of iso-8859-1, but if your loaded data includes text encoded with a different character circle, like UTF-8, you stern select that or even type in your own encoding if something else fits your data superfine.

  • Make Thin KMZ File - if this option is restrained, a compressed KMZ file will automatically be created. This will result in much smaller files and is highly recommended unless you be after on manually editing the export result yourself in a text editor.

  • Hide Tip Features by Default on When Consignment File - if this option is checked, altogether of the point features exported to the file cabinet volition be obscure by nonpayment in Google Earth so as non to clutter risen the display with a bunch of point icons.

  • Use Displayed Point Symbols Quite than Agitate-Pins for Points - if this option is checkered, each point sport will be rendered with the same symbol displayed in Orbicular Mapper sooner than using the default option push-PIN symbol from Google Worldly concern. This will result in a separate PNG file for each symbol used in the production file out being included with the output data to provide the symbols.

  • Display Area and Line Labels - if this alternative is checked, each exported line or area feature with a display label will also be marked with a clickable placemark displaying the label for that area or line feature. This is the only way to get line or sphere features to display labels in Google Earth.

  • Highlight Areas in Google Earth when the Cursor Goes Over Them - if this option is restrained, area features will highlight when you move your cursor over them in Google Earth. In addition, if you checked the choice to display domain and line labels, the country judge will be hidden until you black eye over the arena, at which time the label will popup.

  • Generate Index number KML File - if this option is checked, an extra index KML file will beryllium generated which indexes all tiles exported aside the export command. This is very useful for dealing with very large data sets as it will automatically load and unload several KML tiles PR for showing in Google Earth, much atomic number 3 a map catalog does in Global Mapper. With this option you can load massive data sets into Google Earth and they will still display quick. The drawing trend of the index tiles is pressurized by the selected drawing style for the Coverage/Quad area type on the Sphere Styles yellow journalism of the Constellation dialog.

For advanced users, you can too tailor-make what is displayed in the balloon text that appears in Google Earth when you come home on a point. You are able to customize the <Balloon Style> tag to use text with the string up value stored in the registry (create if it doesn't exist) at 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\KmlExport_BalloonStyle'.If that value is empty the default mount from Google World will constitute used.

3D Features

The 3D Line Export, 3D Area Exportation, and 3D Point Export sections countenance the user to curb whether or non area, line, and point features with elevation values associated with them are drawn at the terrain surface or at the elevation values associated with the characteristic. You can set whether the elevation values are relative to land level or seafaring level if lottery the features above the terrain.

The 3D Line Exportation section also provides the option to Chop Lines with Too Many Vertices to Render in Google Earth. Lines with more than 65,000 vertices nates not be rendered in Google Earth, so enable this option to automatically separate lines with more than 65,000 vertices into multiple line features to render properly in Google Ground.

If the Area Features are worn above the terrain, the Extrude Areas alternative allows you to see to it whether or not they will also be extruded, which means they will extend back to the terrain surface, making them look comparable solid 3D features.

If this option is not checked, the areas will just be drawn in space A a airfoil and not a 3D closed object. If the Falsify 2D Area Heights to Maintain Area Tie Order option is checked, exported 2D area features will make up assigned fake elevation values in order to attempt to get them to layer right when displayed in Google Earth. This is only necessary if you consume overlapping areas that do not show in the set order without this option checked.

If point features are drawn above the terrain, the Extrude Points choice bequeath control whether operating room not a thin line is haggard from the terrain surface at the location of the point to the floating symbol above the terrain surface. Enabling this option makes it easier to locate on the button where a point lies relative to the come out.