Excel To KML - Display Excel files on Google Earth.

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1 Page 1 of 6 Earth Point Real Estate Home Introduction Q & A County Records Property Search County GIS Utilities Township & Range Excel To KML Around Town Press Blog About Local Homes, Global View Home and Land Specialist Google Earth Consultant Excel To KML - Display Excel files on Google Earth. Export a spreadsheet of lat/long coordinates to Google Earth. Pop-up balloons, icons, and paths are easily created from the spreadsheet data. Direction arrows for GPS tracks. Read blog article... Read the Quick Start instructions or download the sample data ExcelToKmlDemo.zip. Click the "Browse" button and select an Excel file (xls, txt, or csv). Bill Clark Earth Point A B C D E F 1 Latitude Longitude Icon IconHeading IconColor LineColor line -180 yellow aqua line -180 yellow aqua line -180 yellow aqua Browse... New Feature Display Excel files on Google Earth. more... Check our ratings at Angie s List. View on Google Earth View File on Web Page, Check for errors Thank you for your input and testing. If you need help getting started, or if you have ideas for improvement, please write or call. Quick Start Open Excel. Enter column headings "Latitude", "Longitude", "Name", "Description", and "Icon". On the rows that follow, enter the attributes of each point. "Latitude" and "Longitude" are the coordinates. These are required. The remaining columns are optional. "Name" is the label that appears next A B C D E to each icon on Google Earth. 1 Latitude Longitude Name Description Icon "Description" is the text that appears '34.86"N '23.30"W BAM Art museum 12 in the Google Earth pop-up balloon Roses Nice garden Zoo Great visit 186 An Excel formula can be used to combine data from several columns. "Icon" designates the icon that is displayed for each point. An easy way to get an icon is to enter a number from the table below. If the Icon column is left blank or if it is missing, icon number 166 is displayed. You can also enter an icon's "www" web address. If you don't want an icon, enter the word "none". Hint: if you are plotting a GPS track, make an additional column heading, "LineStringColor". Enter "lime" or "yellow" as the column values. Additionally, enter "none" into the Icon column. Save the worksheet. Click the "Browse" button above and select the worksheet you just created. Click the "View on Google Earth" button. To Save The File In the "Places" window of Google Earth, right-click the folder "Earth Point Excel To KML". From the pop-up menu, select "Save As".

2 Page 2 of 6 Features Displays an xls (Excel), csv (comma separated values) or txt (tab delimited) file on Google Earth. Excel columns "Latitude", "Longitude", "Name", "Description", and "Icon" are all that are needed for a professional looking presentation. Advanced options allow you to elevate the icon above the earth's surface, draw a path ("connect the dots"), and control mouse-over effects. Icons can be specified by entering a number from the table below or by entering the URL of an icon stored on a web server. Column specifications are listed below. Guidelines File name must end in ".xls", ".csv", or ".txt" The first row that contains the values "Latitude" and Longitude" is considered to be the heading row. All previous rows are ignored. All subsequent rows are treated as data. The columns listed below control the appearance of each placemark. "Latitude" and "Longitude" are required. All others are optional. Any column not listed is ignored. Multiple worksheets are allowed in an Excel workbook. Each worksheet name will be displayed as a separate folder in Google Earth "My Places". Security Excel To KML security is comparable to sending an to a trusted colleague. Your data is transmitted over the internet and saved as a file on the Earth Point server. The data is immediately sent back to your PC in the form of a KML file and the original file is removed from the Earth Point server. Issues There are a minor issues with the OleDb driver that this web page uses to read Excel files. Csv and txt files are not affected by these issues. Excel files must be from Office 2003 or earlier. Our hosting company is scheduled to install the latest drivers at the end of February, which will read Office 2007 files. Until then, only 2003 or earlier. Data is read from columns A to UV (1 to 255) of the spreadsheet. Column IV (256) is ignored. The last issue affects the display on this web page, when checking for errors, but has no effect on the display on Google Earth. If an Excel file starts out with blank rows, these are not displayed on this web page, and the apparent row numbers will be inaccurate. An easy work-around is to type spaces into at least one cell of each blank row at the beginning of the worksheet. Note: there is no problem with blank rows within the worksheet data. These are displayed correctly. Columns Used By Excel To KML Latitude, Longitude, Name, Description, and Icon are all that are necessary for a professional looking presentation. Advanced options allow you to elevate the icon above the earth's surface, draw a path ("connect the dots"), and control mouse-over effects. Excel To KML ignores any additional columns in your spreadsheet. Required Columns Column Heading Default Value Description Latitude None Latitude of point. Google Earth uses the WGS84 geodetic dataum. Valid formats include: 43 38'19.39"N

3 Page 3 of 6 If expressed in decimal form, northern latitudes are positive, southern latitudes are negative. If blank or invalid, item is not displayed on Google Earth. Longitude None Longitude of point. Google Earth uses the WGS84 geodetic dataum. Valid formats include: '28.86"W If expressed in decimal form, eastern longitudes are positive, western longitudes are negative. If blank or invalid, item is not displayed on Google Earth. Basic Optional Columns Column Heading Default Value Description Name None The text displayed next to the icon on Google Earth. If blank, no text is displayed. Description None The text displayed in the Google Earth pop-up balloon. An Excel formula can be used to combine text from several columns. For example, to display data from columns D, E, and F, with each of D, E, and F on its own line, and supposing we are on row 6, the Description column formula is =D6 & "<br/>" & E6 & "<br/>" & F6 where <br/> is the html tag for a new line. HTML tags are allowed. Note to HTML authors: Except for specifying font color, the HTML "style" attribute is ignored by Google Earth. Earlier formatting methods must be used, as illustrated in the sample data ExcelToKmlDemo.zip. If blank, no balloon is displayed. Icon Either: 1) A integer between 1 to 279, which designates an icon selected from the table below; or 2) The URL of an icon stored on a web site; or 3) the word "none". If the file cannot be found, Google displays. If "none", no icon is displayed. If blank, is displayed. Advanced Optional Columns Column Heading Default Value Description IconScale 1 A decimal number that increases or decreases the display size of the icon. Typical values are in the

4 Page 4 of 6 range of.5 to 1. No matter how big or small an image actually is, Google Earth displays it according to the scale. For example, If blank, scale is 1. Scale=1 Scale=.7 Scale=1.5 IconAltitude 0 Height of icon above the ground, in meters. If blank, height is 0. IconLineColor Yellow If the icon is elevated above the ground (see IconAltitude) this is the HTML color of the line drawn from ground up to the icon. Can be an HTML hexadecimal color code, the word "none", or one of the named colors: Aqua Black Blue Fuchsia Gray Green Lime Maroon Navy Olive Purple Red Silver Teal White Yellow Need more colors? Search Google for html colors. If "none", the line is not displayed. If blank, color is yellow. IconColor None Fills an icon with a different color. Can be any of the colors listed for IconLineColor. If blank, or "none", icon is left alone. IconHeading None Rotates an icon. Can be a number, the word "line" or the word "line" plus or minus a number. A positive number rotates the icon to the right by the number of degress specified by the number. A negative number rotates the icon to the left. The word "line" rotates the icon to face in the direction of travel. The word "line" plus or minus a number rotates the icon to face the direction of travel, then rotates it some more as specified by the number. If blank, or 0, the icon is not rotated. Snippet None A short text description that is displayed under the Name in the "My Places" section of Google Earth. If blank, no text is displayed. HideNameUntilMouseOver False Valid values are "True", "Yes", "x", "False", "No", and blank. If true, the icon is displayed with no label, until mouse over, then the label is displayed. If False, the label is always displayed. If there alot of icons on Google Earth, is helpful to hide the labels to reduce screen clutter.

5 Page 5 of 6 If blank, Name is always displayed, regardless of mouse-over. LineStringColor None "Connect the dots" - draws a line from this point to the next. The difference is that the default for LineStringColor is to not draw a line (the default for IconLineColor is to draw a yellow line). If "none" or blank, the line is not displayed. LineStringAltitude 0 The altitude, in meters above the ground, of this end of the LineString. If blank, altitude is 0. All other columns are ignored. Other columns are allowed in the file. They are not used by Excel To KML. Google Earth Icons These icons can be displayed on Google Earth by entering the icon number into the Icon column of the spreadsheet. Move your mouse over each icon to see what the mouse-over effect will look like on Google Earth

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