Shape2Earth - Shapefile to KML Converter - Beta 2 Available
Tim Beermann posted in my comments that:
Shape2Earth can now be downloaded and tested at http://interactiveearth.blogspot.com/.I have not had much time to implement a lot of the features I would like .. but those will come with time.
For those who have not been following Shape2Earth Beta 2 news, you can get up to speed on the enhancements over on Tim’s blog. Good news as GIS professionals are really starting to take a liking to Google Earth and making it part of their workflows.
Ah, but Google Earth’s pesky EULA gets in the way.
Thanks for the info. Isn’t KML going against the idea of seperating content from style?
I love what Google has done for geospatial in general. I would love it even more if/when publically adopted specifications (read OGC) are implemented in their approaches.
FYI… World Wind can just open a shapefile in it.
And as was stared in the IRC channel: shapetokml is child’s play
And as one of the SoC projects, the shapefile importing is getting a big overhaul: http://alteviltech.com/blog/2006/05/24/world-wind-summer-of-code-projects-detailed/
Shape2Earth - shapefile to KML converter - Beta 2 available
[Source: James Fee - GIS & ESRI Blog] quoted: For those who have not been following Shape2Earth Beta 2 news, you can get up to speed on the enhancements over on Tim’s blog. Good news as GIS professionals are really starting to take a liking to Go…
I might suggest in the next revision, to encapsulate the node in
I might suggest in the next revision, to encapsulate the description node in
From what I have seen so far with ESRI’s ArcExplorer, users will not be able to load local data …with the exception of KML files. World Wind also supports KML loading, as does Google Maps. I’m not sure if I like the idea of KML becoming a primary geospatial data format, but is sure is spreading rapidly.
[...] The GIS community has been quick to provide export tools to KML so they could use the ‘free’ GE as a publication media. For example, ESRI ArcGIS Extensions (Arc2Earth , KMLer, Shape2Earth, …) provide professional commercial products to convert layers, data frames, graphics and whole ArcGIS mxd project files into KML and vice-versa; NASA World Wind (‘the free GE for research geeks’) has extensions to do similar; and ESRI currently has its own Google Earth equivalent (ArcGIS Explorer - AGX) in late beta - AGX is officially scheduled for release along with ArcGIS 9.2 in Qtr4 2006 (though I expect a sooner release). Importantly, both the ArcGIS 9.2 and ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) specs say they will read/write KML directly, finally ending Google Earth’s (and recently, its sister Google Maps’) exclusive direct readability of KML and addressing the recent tightening of GE user licensing. [...]
Shape2Earth Verion 1.0 has been released at http://shape2earth.com. It’s intended to lower the bar for those without GIS software who want to render GIS data for viewing in Google Earth.
Its give us very good results.
Let me try
There is also another freeware convertor between shapefiles and KML available called GSpatial, which can do some nifty stuff such as thematics on shapefiles. You can download it here: http://www.svggis.com/gspatial.aspx