KMZ file killing google earth

[dgreen]

I work for a utility company and we have all our overhead and underground lines in arcmap.  I converted these lines into a layer file and then used arcmap toolbox to convert the layer to a kml file.  The file is about 10mb.  When I try and open the file within GE, it just becomes unresponsive.  If I double click directly on the file and it starts GE, then it starts to load and then crashes.  Any ideas?  This is Windows 7, latest GE, ArcMap 10.0.

Thanks

[barryhunter (KML Guru)]

Rather than the 'filesize' per se, its more likly the number of features. 

How many lines/points etc does this file contain? Its probably quite a few? 

You might find that 'Regionating' it would help, eg

https://support.google.com/earth/answer/175007?hl=en

[dgreen]

yes, I am sure it is a lot.  I split the model up into 4 pieces and then created 4 kml file from arcmap.  Now I can add the files, except it crashes or I get an out of memory message on the last one.  So 4 files is the max.  I don't have GE Pro or EC so I do not have the regionating option.  Thanks

[Jason M]

I often need to generate large KML files 10-100MB size.

For example, 5000 features can be handled nicely. Depending on type of feature and how much text/extendedData per feature you might be able to get Google Earth to handle up to 25,000 features or more. I've created a KML generator that can generate up to 25K features for testing. I tried some tests with 100K places and another with 500K places both of which had issues.

If you generate or split your KML into many smaller KML files such as in 5,000 placemark chunks you can have a parent KML with networklinks to the smaller files. You can have 100's of the smaller files. 4 is definitely not the limit but you may need to set <visibility>0</visibility> on the networklinks to NOT auto-load all the network Linked KML files at once.

--jason

[barryhunter (KML Guru)]

The 'regionate' command in Google Earth, is actully just a bundled version of:

https://code.google.com/p/regionator/

(ie the tool itself is Open Sourced, its just been made slightly easier to use via Pro) 

(and as mentioned by Jason, the file limti is definitly not 4. I've loaded files with hundreds of network links. The limit is still the number of files loaded at once. Regionating, means it only loads a subset at any one time, and dynamically loads more as required)