Draw Circle in Google Earth Pro

Create a map or story in Google World Web

Tutorial Contents

• Prerequisites

• Let'due south Get Started!

• Create a project and add together places

• Calculation a place from Street View

• Preview your finished project

• Add rich data to your places

• Adding photos, videos and text

• Previewing changes

• Styling placemarks

• Adding 3D views

• Irresolute the Info box

• Add together information to your second placemark

• Adding videos

• Add lines and shapes to your project

• Draw a line

• Describe a shape

• Add slides to your projection

• Share your project

• To share a link to the project

• To share the projection with specific people for viewing or collaboration

• More with Earth creation tools

• Viewing your projects on web and mobile

• Pinning Projects

• Importing your KML files

• Exporting KML

• Word and Feedback

• What's Next

Prerequisites

• No programming skills needed!
• A Chrome browser (download here), logged into your Google Business relationship. Don't have one? Sign up here.

Permit'due south Get Started!

The new creation tools in Google Earth allow y'all to hands create and share maps and stories most our earth every bit an Earth project. Y'all tin can create a project on whatsoever subject field of your choosing, drawing placemarks, lines and shapes, adding rich contextual information to your places (text, links, images, videos, 3D views and Street View), and organizing your project into a narrative flow. You can share your project and interact with others. In presentation mode, viewers volition fly from one place to the next following the narrative of your project, immersing them in the journey through Google World'south imagery and the custom content you provide.

This tutorial will introduce you to the new cosmos tools, and walk you through the process of creating and sharing your ain Earth project. In order to consummate this tutorial, you will need some text, photo and video content to add together to your projection. Yous can use your own content or you lot tin can use the sample content provided past our friends at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). Download the nothing file below for the JGI images and extract the contents to a folder on your desktop.

JGI_sample_content.zip (249k Nada file)

If you lot choose to follow along with our Jane Goodall example, yous may want to preview the finished sample Jane Goodall story earlier you commencement the tutorial.

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Create a project and add together places

1. Open up Google Earth on your figurer: https://earth.google.com/web
2. Click on the Projects icon in the left-mitt navigation.
3. If you've never created a Projection before, you will click the Create button to create a new project. If yous've created Earth projects before, so you lot'll see a listing of your projects and can click the New project push to create a new project. If you're not already logged into your Google business relationship, you'll be prompted to do so.

4. In the Projection Details console, click the Edit button to the right of Untitled Projection to edit the project's title and description. In this case, we've supplied some text below for you to copy and paste into these fields.

   Project Title: Jane Goodall's Journey to Gombe

   Clarification:
   Jane Goodall is i of the all-time-known naturalists and conservationists in the world. Her piece of work revolutionized our agreement of chimpanzees. She started the Jane Goodall Institute, which works for chimpanzee conservation across Africa.

   You'll discover that your edits are automatically saved in Google Drive as yous work.

5. At present it'due south fourth dimension to add your start place to the map. There are ii ways to add a place: dropping a placemark on the map or using Search to observe a place. Beginning, we'll try calculation a placemark to the map:

   Navigate around the world until you see England. At present, click the Add placemark button in the cosmos toolbar at the lesser left-mitt to activate the placemark tool.

   

   Then click on the map, on England, to add together the placemark.

   Tip: If y'all are non seeing country and other place names on the earth, endeavour changing your Map Way. Click on the Google Earth menu push and select Map Style. Alter your Map Way to Exploration so that you can see identify names on the globe.

6. In the Relieve to projection box, click into the Title field and name your placemark "Jane'south Babyhood". The Project field should be prepare to "Jane Goodall'due south Journey to Gombe". Then click Save.

   

   Y'all should see your titled placemark announced in the list of features in the Project Details panel.

7. Now let's add a placemark using the 2d method: the Search tool. Click the Search icon in the left-hand navigation and search for "Nairobi National Museum". Click on the first search event.

   

8. On the Nairobi National Museum Cognition Card at correct, click the Add to project button.

   

   Click Save to add the second place to your project. You lot tin can close the Knowledge Card by clicking on the X in the top-right corner.

Adding a identify from Street View

1. Now let'due south add together a 3rd and final place - this time a identify in Street View! Use the Search tool again to wing to "Gombe National Park", but close the Knowledge Card without adding it to the Project.
2. Click on the Street View pegman in the bottom right corner. Blue lines and dots will appear wherever Street View imagery is bachelor. Click on the blue line or dot to enter Street View on i of the forested hills in the park.

3. Navigate through the Street View until you find the view you lot'd like to add to the identify. Click the Capture this view button.

   

4. Title the placemark "Gombe National Park" and save it to your project.

Preview your finished project

1. Click the Present button to encounter your project presented in a narrative format.

   

2. Click next and previous buttons in the Table of Contents at bottom left to wing to each feature in your project. Click the back button - the arrow in the top left corner - to exit the presentation.

   • Tip: You can also drop a placemark on the globe by clicking the New feature button and select Add placemark.

   • Tip: To modify the narrative order of your project, go to the Projection Details panel and reorder the characteristic list by clicking and dragging the features into a new guild.

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Add together rich information to your places

Calculation photos, videos and text

1. In the Project Details panel, hover over the first characteristic in your projection and click the Edit button to open the Property Editor panel.

   

2. Click on the Camera push.

   

   Here you volition see options to upload an image from your computer, choose a photo from your Google Photos albums, search the spider web for images, select an image by URL or add together YouTube videos.

   

   Using the search choice, search for images of Bournemouth (Jane's childhood home) and select one that you like. Click Select to see the image announced with a thumbnail view in the Property Editor panel.

   

3. Click the camera push button over again to add together a second photograph. Search for and add a second photo. Calculation multiple photos volition create an image carousel in your Info box.

4. Click the Clarification field and copy and paste the below text. This box has basic formatting options available, including bold, italics, underline, bullet lists, indentation, and hyperlinks. Text starting with "http.." will automatically be hyperlinked.

   Jane Goodall grew upward in Bournemouth, England. Growing upward, she was fascinated past all kinds of animals. When she was young, her favorite books were Dr. Dolittle and the Tarzan series. All she wanted to do was go to Africa, discover the incredible animals living at that place, and write books about them.

   

Previewing changes

Click the Preview presentation button to meet your changes in presentation mode. Click the back push button to go back to the Property Editor panel and proceed editing.

Styling placemarks

1. Curlicue down the Property Editor panel and find the Placemark department. Click on the placemark size and change the size to Large.
2. Click on the paint bucket icon to change the placemark colour to yellowish.

3. Click on the placemark overflow menu and select Run into more icons. Search the icons using the give-and-take "book" and select the volume icon to represent Jane'due south childhood.

   

   Tip: Yous tin also add a custom icon (your own icon paradigm file) by clicking the placemark overflow menu and selecting Upload custom icon. Your icons must be in jpg or png file format and we recommend you lot use an image size of 128 x 128 pixels or 64 x 64 pixels (extremely large icons may bear upon the functioning of the app).

Adding 3D views

Now that we know Jane grew upwardly in Bournemouth, let'due south make the view in Earth of Jane's childhood more specific and immersive.

1. Click on the placemark and drag the marker to Bournemouth (just w of Southampton along the southern coast of England). You may need to zoom and pan the map to get a better view of the town.
2. Now, tilt and rotate the Earth's surface using the compass or keyboard shortcuts until you find a view of Bournemouth that you like.

3. Click the Capture this view button. This assembly this 3D view with your location, and in presentation style when you visit this location, the map will fly to this view.

   

Irresolute the Info box

You can modify the style of the Info box that displays your content (text, photos, videos, etc).

1. In the Property Editor panel click the drib down arrow on the right-side of the Info box and change the Info box from Small-scale info box to Large info box.
2. Click the Preview presentation button to meet the changes. Determine which way y'all like best!

Add together data to your 2nd placemark

At present let'southward add information to the other placemarks in your project.

1. Click the back button to become back to the Project Details panel.

2. Hover over the second placemark and click the Edit push .

3. Since we added this placemark from a Knowledge Menu, it displays information from the Google Cognition Graph (y'all can click the Preview presentation button to see the default information displayed). Y'all could choose to keep the Knowledge Card information every bit is, or you can click "Replace" in the Property Editor panel to delete this information and then add together your own content. In this example, let'due south delete the Google data card content.

   

4. Keep the title "Nairobi National Museum" given by the Knowledge Graph, only add a new clarification to this placemark:

   In 1957, on a visit to Republic of kenya, Jane met the famous anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey, and was hired equally a secretary. Dr. Leakey was looking for someone to begin a study of chimpanzees to gain insight into human being beings' evolutionary past.

5. Add an paradigm past uploading the file titled jane_and_leakey.jpg (plant in JGI_sample_content.nada) from your computer.

6. Set a 3D view and click the Capture this view button.

   

7. Now edit your third and final placemark, Jane'due south Peak. Add together the following clarification:

   Jane Goodall arrived in Gombe in July of 1960. The area was located in what was so the British protectorate of Tanganyika. It was unheard of at the time for a immature woman of 26 to travel into the forests of Africa lone. Armed merely with her binoculars and a notebook, Jane would climb to Gombe'due south highest peak in search of the chimpanzees. Over the years, Jane'south inquiry led to many new discoveries, for example that chimpanzees know how to make and use tools, like humans do. Her research team has studied the beliefs and followed the lives of the chimpanzees of Gombe for many decades at present.

Adding videos

1. While still in the Property Editor panel for the third placemark, click on the camera button and select YouTube. You may search for a YouTube video or you tin access your public YouTube videos. If you have an unlisted YouTube you'd like to add, you can enter its URL in the search box to select information technology.

2. Search for "jane goodall termite fishing" and select the first search result to add the video to the identify.

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Add together lines and shapes to your project

Draw a line

1. In the Project Details panel, click the New feature push and select Draw line or shape (Notation: Y'all can also click the Draw line or shape button in the creation toolbar at the bottom of your screen).

2. On the map, click to add together a series of points to draw the line. Each time you click, a new segment is added to your line. To stop your line, press enter. For the Jane Goodall project, you might draw the path that a boat would take to get from the nearest metropolis (Kigoma) to the inquiry station in Gombe.

3. In the Add to project box, proper noun your line and click Edit place.

   

4. In the Width and colour section, click on the width dropdown and modify the line width to eight pixels.

   

5. Click on the color palette to select scarlet for your line colour. Alternatively click Custom colors to create your ain color swatch (Note: the hexadecimal code tin can be edited directly for verbal spider web color matches).

6. Zoom out to and then that you can see the entire line and click Capture this view.

Tip: If you open the Property Editor console for your line, you volition be able to drag and move your line points to reshape your line, but you tin't delete or add together segments.

Draw a shape

1. Now, we'll add a shape. In the Projection Details panel, click the New feature button and select Describe line or shape.

2. On the map, click to add a series of points to draw your shape. Each fourth dimension you click, a new segment is added to the outline of your shape. To finish your shape, click once more on the first bespeak that was added to close the shape. For the Jane Goodall project, you might draw a shape around the research station in Gombe.

   

3. In the Add together to Project box, name your shape and click Edit place.

4. In the Outline width and color department, modify the outline to crimson.

5. In the Fill up color section, change the fill color to yellow. You lot tin can likewise change the transparency using the drop down carte above the colour palette.

6. Suit the view and click Capture this view.

   

Tip: You tin reshape your polygon by clicking and dragging points, but you tin't delete segments. You lot tin not click and drag your entire shape to a new location.

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Add slides to your project

1. In the Project Details console, click the New feature push button and select Fullscreen slide.

2. Give the slide a title and description.

   Jane Goodall's Journey to Gombe

   This is the story of Jane Goodall and her groundbreaking enquiry with chimpanzees in Gombe National Park.

3. Add an image by selecting the Photographic camera push button, then Upload and selecting the file entitled jane_peak.jpg (constitute in JGI_sample_content.nada) from your reckoner.

4. Click the back button to go to the Projection Details panel.

5. Click on the slide in the feature listing and elevate information technology to the peak of the list of features.

6. Now click the Present button to see how your new slide introduces your projection.

   

Tip: Yous tin can add together slides to introduce your project, create capacity or sections, to add an ending bulletin or credits and more.

Tip: If you choose to use an image as your slide background, your championship and description will appear at the lesser lefthand of your slide. If you choose to apply color as your slide background, your title and description will appear centered on your slide.

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Y'all have many options when y'all want to share your Earth projection with others. All projects are individual by default — but yous as the creator of the project can view or edit information technology. Below you'll learn how to share the project, too as how to collaborate on your projection with others.

1. Click the Share button on the Project Details panel.

   

2. Click Get shareable link.

   

3. Copy the link. Y'all can at present share this link with others so that they can view your project. Note: if you plow link sharing on, anyone who the link is shared with can view your projection. If you'd similar to control access permissions past Google account then yous will probable desire to use the method described direct below instead of turning link sharing on..

Tip: By default, people with the link will only be able to view your projection. If you'd like, you can change the permissions so that anyone with the link tin can edit your project.

1. Click the Share button on the Project Details console.

2. Under People, type in the electronic mail addresses of the people you'd like to share the map with directly, or choose from your contacts, and click Done. You can select whether the people you lot invite tin can edit the project or merely view it. If a person does not take edit access, they will non see the Edit buttons in the Project Details console and thus volition not have access to the Belongings Editor for whatever features in the project.

   

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Viewing your projects on web and mobile

You can observe maps and stories you own and that have been shared with you by clicking on Projects in the navigation and looking through the list in the Projects panel. In the list, you'll encounter maps and stories organized past the categories Pinned to Earth, KML files and Recent. Y'all tin can also use the New projection push button to open up projects and KML files that do not automatically appear in your Projects list. You can also open an Earth project directly from Google Drive, or from a shared link.

You lot tin view your projects on a mobile device by opening the Google Earth app, clicking the card in the upper lefthand corner and selecting Projects. You lot tin can non edit your projects on mobile at this time.

Pinning Projects

In order to ensure that a projection always appears in your list of projects (fifty-fifty if you haven't recently opened it), hover over the project in the Projects console and click the pin icon. The project will now appear in the Pinned to Earth section on your device.,

Tip: Pinned projects are e'er visible on the globe (unless yous toggle off visibility using the Hide project button), even when you're exploring a unlike projection in presentation mode. Y'all tin use this characteristic to "mash up" several dissimilar projects and/or KML files together.

Importing your KML files

If you've already created a map using another mapping tool such as Google My Maps, Bout Builder or Earth Pro and saved it as a KML or KMZ file, you can import the KML or KMZ to view and edit in Google Earth (with some limitations):

Currently, y'all are able to import your KMLs only as local files. Local files are projects stored in your local browser storage on your computer. Local files are not stored in the Google Cloud. Local files cannot be shared with others and cannot be shared beyond devices. Local files are stored only in the local browser storage on the computer used to import the file.

Before you can import your KML files, you must turn on KML import in your Google Globe settings.

1. Click the Google Globe menu button and select Settings.

2. Scroll to the lesser of the Settings carte and toggle the setting for "Turn on KML file import" to on.

3. Click Salvage.

Now you can import a KML file.

1. Go to the Projects panel and click the New project button. Before you turned on KML file import, clicking this push only immune you to create a new project or open a projection from Google Drive. Now y'all will see options to create a KML file and to import a KML file from your reckoner or Google Drive.
2. Select Import KML file from figurer.
3. Select the KML file from your estimator and click Open.
4. Your KML file will appear in your Projects console. You tin can at present explore and edit your KML.

Tip: You may experience some bug importing more than complex KML files. For example, some advanced KML features currently don't work well or at all in the new Google Earth for web and mobile, including 3D models, tours, tracks, time-based KML, and photo overlays. Too, very big KML files or complex features (eg: polygons with many vertices) may not import or return well.

Tip: If yous create or import KML files, you will non be able to catechumen them to Earth projects (stored in the Cloud), and so yous will not be able to share your KML files with others.

Exporting KML

To export a KML of your project, go to the Project Details panel and click the overflow menu , and so select Export equally KML file.

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Discussion and Feedback

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