20 votes

Spatial resolution of Google Earth Imagery

The resolution of imagery in Google Earth varies depending on the source of the data. When you zoom out, you will see the nice, pretty global coverage produced from a mosaic of many Landsat scenes, ...
Christiaan Adams's user avatar
18 votes
Accepted

Where are the oil platforms in Google Earth?

You can not see oil platforms in oceans because Google Earth shows the underwater terrain (bathymetry). In ocean area you see the seafloor. In land or coast area you see an aerial or satellite image.
Jens's user avatar
  • 6,139
18 votes
Accepted

Fetching the on-click data from the website into QGIS

Demo: SOLUTION: This is a two-step solution, Step 1: Browser (JavaScript). It copies the popup text to the clipboard. Step 2: QGIS (Python). It gets the text from the clipboard, parses to obtain ...
Kadir Şahbaz's user avatar
17 votes

Where are the oil platforms in Google Earth?

As Jens said, Google Earth doesn't show you satellite or aerial images for ocean areas. However, the European Space Agency provides global imagery from its Sentinel 2 mission, which covers the oceans ...
Jake's user avatar
  • 6,852
17 votes

Why do zones differ for WGS84 UTM in Google Earth Pro vs. in QGIS 3.4?

There are 60 UTM Zones, each 6 degrees wide (about 700km at the equator), and stretching from 84 degrees North to 80 degrees South (the poles are reference with the Universal Polar Stereographic grid ...
Christiaan Adams's user avatar
16 votes

Fetching the on-click data from the website into QGIS

EDIT : see https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/409403/93097 for an updated answer with an other website data, after NASA Eclipse website closing. Here my solution, entirely in QGIS (version >= 3.14, ...
J. Monticolo's user avatar
  • 15.5k
14 votes

Drawing circle in Google Earth around point?

Pro tip... use the measuring tool to draw circles! Google Earth Pro's drawing tools do not include an easy way to draw accurate circles. But, the ruler/measuring tool does let you measure circular ...
Christiaan Adams's user avatar
11 votes
Accepted

Which point of elevation level from Google earth is referring to?

As documented on https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/start The Elevation API provides elevation data for all locations on the surface of the earth, including depth locations on ...
reducing activity's user avatar
10 votes
Accepted

Changing Opacity of Vector layer in Google Earth Engine

It works like this: var shown = true; // true or false, 1 or 0 var opacity = 0.5; // number [0-1] var nameLayer = 'map'; // string var visParams = {color: 'red'}; // dictionary: Map.addLayer(...
Kuik's user avatar
  • 9,913
10 votes
Accepted

Adding text and legend to image collection animation in Earth Engine

Yes, you can do this. The trick is that all overlays such as text and the gradient bar need to be in the ee.Image format. Gennadii Donchyts has developed modules to achieve this. Once you have the ...
Justin Braaten's user avatar
9 votes

Spatial resolution of Google Earth Imagery

Maybe is to late to answer the specific question, but I hope that will help someone else: To identify a platform the historical imagery of Google Earth (GE): Turn ON Layers -> More -> SPOT Image OR ...
maycca's user avatar
  • 3,366
8 votes
Accepted

Microstation coordinates in Google Earth

To convert UTM coordinates into geographic latitude + longitude coordinates (WGS84), you can use an online tool such as this one. In your case, "30U" means zone 30 in the northern hemisphere, and ...
Candy Gumdrop's user avatar
8 votes

Extracting desired values from KML-file using QGIS

There is a QGIS Plugin "KML Tools" available which "looks at the KML description field to see if there are two column tables with entries, "tag=value" pairs, or "tag: ...
pathmapper's user avatar
  • 1,905
8 votes

Saving shp polygon from Google Earth

There is no export to shapefile via Google Earth. These steps when using the Google Earth web version: Once you are in the project section, you can click on the three vertical dots and then export ...
whyzar's user avatar
  • 12k
7 votes

What datum (reference ellipsoid) does Google Earth use?

The heights on google earth refer to EGM96 and are, therefore, Geoidal heights. The lat/long are referred to the WGS 84 ellipsoid.
M. Mukul's user avatar
7 votes

How do I combine layers in Google Maps?

As far as I'm aware, No there is no such feature that performs the actions you are specifically looking for. As a workaround, you could export the layers as KML, import them into My Maps, that will ...
whyzar's user avatar
  • 12k
7 votes
Accepted

Why does Google Earth Pro project these shapefiles correctly and QGIS does not?

You have almost the same projection in both map. The difference between them is the CRS's unit. You need to create a custom CRS in Settings / Custom CRS using this proj4 setting: +proj=utm +zone=10 +...
aldo_tapia's user avatar
  • 13.1k
7 votes
Accepted

Using Open Google Earth cache file in QGIS?

I don't believe qgis is able to process Google Earth cache file. I advise you not to wast your time. Instead use SAS Planet alternative. It stores tiles locally as file:///D:/Software/SAS.Planet/...
Ilyes Tounsi's user avatar
7 votes

Fetching the on-click data from the website into QGIS

In eclipsewise.com, the pop-up window's id is mapmaker. So, you can use the same JavaScript code in the same way. The script copies the pop-op content to the clipboard. function copyToClipboard(text) {...
Kadir Şahbaz's user avatar
7 votes

Weird regions in lagoon water ripples pattern (Google Maps)

I don't know for sure, but as you guessed, the effect you're seeing on the water is likely just stitching between images. This looks like aerial imagery (from an airplane, not a satellite), which ...
Christiaan Adams's user avatar
6 votes

Exporting shapefile to Google Earth format (*.kmz) using QGIS?

QGIS will not save/export straight to KMZ. As Aaron suggests in his comment above, you can right click on your layer in QGIS, select 'Save As...' and choose KML. To then convert your KML to a KMZ, ...
Matt's user avatar
  • 1,672
6 votes
Accepted

How to Export a Shapefile as KML Using R

As said in the comments above, the Global Soil Information Facilities (tutorials) website maintained, amongst others, by some of the plotKML authors and contributors gives you everything you need to ...
fdetsch's user avatar
  • 5,183
6 votes

Why should Google Earth's satellite imagery differ from what is available via the Openlayers plugin on QGIS?

The Google Earth Blog (note: this is not officially affiliated with Google) has an article here that might answer your question. It seems that some imagery is added to Google Earth and Google Maps ...
juturna's user avatar
  • 1,203
6 votes

Tile server overlay in Google Earth?

I created GEOS, the Google Earth Overlay Server for exactly this purpose. That's a python server running locally and creating KML overlays for tiled maps. You can specify custom mapsources in XML-...
Gregor Sturm's user avatar
6 votes
Accepted

Sync ArcMap view extent to Google Earth

https://github.com/ChrisStayte/ArcMap-To-Google-Earth/blob/master/README.md This Add-In might accomplish what you are trying to do. When you click the tool, you will zoom to your arcmap extent in ...
Tigerwoulds's user avatar
6 votes

Drawing circle in Google Earth around point?

If I am not missing something obvious, latitude and longitude data in decimal degrees is found at the left hand side of the linked page, i.e. 49.667 and -125.833 respectively.
Kazuhito's user avatar
  • 30.4k
6 votes

Trying to display Sentinel-2 imagery in Google Earth Engine, code working but displaying blank figure

From product description: The SENTINEL-2 data contain 13 UINT16 spectral bands representing TOA reflectance scaled by 10000 With putting max: 0.3, you are stretching the image from 0 to 0.3, or ...
aldo_tapia's user avatar
  • 13.1k
6 votes
Accepted

.tif image (made in QGIS 3) imported into Google Earth Pro is blank/has no symbology options

You probably need to convert/render your image to an RGB color image before or during export from QGIS. Google Earth can only import/display images that have 3 bands: red, green, blue. If your ...
Christiaan Adams's user avatar
6 votes
Accepted

Flight visualization in QGIS

As far as I see, the solution by @bugmenot123 does not work as intended: native Qgis 3D symbology accepts only a fixed valued for the elevation, no data driven override to use the values of an ...
Babel's user avatar
  • 63.1k
5 votes

Accuracy of measurements in Google Earth

In 2011 two brazilians published an article about it, and they concluded that: *the error is just 0,44% for line measurements; *the error is just 3,54% for polygon measurements; *the error is just 1,...
Rodrigo Sartori Bogo's user avatar

Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible