How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to MapInfo
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Ishmael Okine
Jun 2, 2011, 12:19:42 PM6/2/11
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Hi experts,
Can anybody show me how I can draw a polygon in Google earth and
export it as a tab file into MapInfo.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Ishmael
Can anybody show me how I can draw a polygon in Google earth and
export it as a tab file into MapInfo.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Ishmael
Juan Berroa
Jun 2, 2011, 1:18:18 PM6/2/11
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Ishamel,
If you have MapInfo 10.5, you may save you polygon as KML and import it using File > Open Unversal Data
> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:19:42 -0700
> Subject: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to MapInfo
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If you have MapInfo 10.5, you may save you polygon as KML and import it using File > Open Unversal Data
Juan Pablo Berroa
> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:19:42 -0700
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Ishmael Okine
Jun 3, 2011, 5:44:27 AM6/3/11
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Juan,
Thank you. Unfortunately I'm using version 9.0 and i cannot get the kml format inn there. My main problem is how i can draw the polygon in google earth map. When i click on the polygon it send me to a window where i can rename the polygon. I want to draw the polygon in a free style way and export to MapInfo.
Is there any addin where i can install in my 9.0 version in mapinfo?
Thanks,
Ishmael
Robert Juan
Jun 3, 2011, 5:54:19 AM6/3/11
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Hi Ishmael,
Maybe you could export your polygon in Mapinfo to shape file, and then use a free coverter to kml
Hope this helps.
Robert
Ishmael Okine
Jun 3, 2011, 7:44:18 AM6/3/11
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Thanks Robert,
I want to know how can i draw the polygon in Google earth map?
Regards,
Ishmael
David Reid
Jun 3, 2011, 8:23:05 AM6/3/11
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Move the popup window out of your way and begin your
digitizing.
HTH
Dave
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Ishmael Okine
Jun 3, 2011, 8:46:05 AM6/3/11
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It works.
This is what i did:
- after moving the popup window i drew the polygon
- saved as .jpg file
- opened in mapinfo and digitized it
Everything worked i.e. the polygon went to the correct location but the whole vectors is skewed from the original locations (road, regional borders, airport, etc)
How can i get the vectors (road, regional borders, airport, secondary roads, etc) back in their original locations with the digitized polygon?
Cheers,
David Reid
Jun 3, 2011, 9:50:24 AM6/3/11
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Getting your vectors directly from GE to MI is far more
preferable than digitizing then saving as a raster, then digitizing again in,
waaaaaay too strenuous!
I'd suggest you take a look at the group's recent archives for
discussions on converting or translating GE's "KML" files to MI TABs or
MIFs. THEN
Create a temporary folder in GE to store your digitizing work,
when done digitizing, simply RIGHT click your Google Earth TEMP folder, click
"Save As", name your file, change the file type in the drop down list to KML,
save your file.
Then, simply convert the KML with you're chosen means of doing
so and go have a beer and rejoice you don't have to digitize
twice.
Note: the above will create one KML file with every object you
digitized contained within one file, that is, if you digitized 10 regions, 50
polylines, 200 points, you get one file with all these in one, you're conversion
utility will determine if you can do this in one step or three (depending on how
your translator can handle the varing topology), I personally convert the files
manually using an enhanced text editor.
HTH
David Reid
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:46 AM
Duri
Jun 5, 2011, 7:34:53 PM6/5/11
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Yeah I agree with David, your method will work but will take a long
time and the 2nd digitizing will only make it more inaccurate.
Once you have produced your kml you could use something like
http://www.zonums.com/online/kml2shp.php to convert it to a shape file
and then open the resulting shape in mapinfo.
NB: the kml2shp tool has a funny little bug sometimes and draws a line
all the way back to the origin (lat 0, long 0) but if you zoom into
the area you would expect the polygon to be you should see your
polygon all you need to do then is remove the extra node and convert
it to a region.
I'm sure there are other products out there that do a better job but
this one is easy as you don't need to install anything on your
machine.
Duri
On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, "David Reid" <dwr...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Getting your vectors directly from GE to MI is far more preferable than
> digitizing then saving as a raster, then digitizing again in, waaaaaay too
> strenuous!
>
> I'd suggest you take a look at the group's recent archives for discussions
> on converting or translating GE's "KML" files to MI TABs or MIFs. THEN
>
> Create a temporary folder in GE to store your digitizing work, when done
> digitizing, simply RIGHT click your Google Earth TEMP folder, click "Save
> As", name your file, change the file type in the drop down list to KML, save
> your file.
>
> Then, simply convert the KML with you're chosen means of doing so and go
> have a beer and rejoice you don't have to digitize twice.
>
> Note: the above will create one KML file with every object you digitized
> contained within one file, that is, if you digitized 10 regions, 50
> polylines, 200 points, you get one file with all these in one, you're
> conversion utility will determine if you can do this in one step or three
> (depending on how your translator can handle the varing topology), I
> personally convert the files manually using an enhanced text editor.
>
> HTH
> David Reid
>
> _____
>
>
> 2. saved as .jpg file
>
> 3. opened in mapinfo and digitized it
time and the 2nd digitizing will only make it more inaccurate.
Once you have produced your kml you could use something like
http://www.zonums.com/online/kml2shp.php to convert it to a shape file
and then open the resulting shape in mapinfo.
NB: the kml2shp tool has a funny little bug sometimes and draws a line
all the way back to the origin (lat 0, long 0) but if you zoom into
the area you would expect the polygon to be you should see your
polygon all you need to do then is remove the extra node and convert
it to a region.
I'm sure there are other products out there that do a better job but
this one is easy as you don't need to install anything on your
machine.
Duri
On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, "David Reid" <dwr...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Getting your vectors directly from GE to MI is far more preferable than
> digitizing then saving as a raster, then digitizing again in, waaaaaay too
> strenuous!
>
> I'd suggest you take a look at the group's recent archives for discussions
> on converting or translating GE's "KML" files to MI TABs or MIFs. THEN
>
> Create a temporary folder in GE to store your digitizing work, when done
> digitizing, simply RIGHT click your Google Earth TEMP folder, click "Save
> As", name your file, change the file type in the drop down list to KML, save
> your file.
>
> Then, simply convert the KML with you're chosen means of doing so and go
> have a beer and rejoice you don't have to digitize twice.
>
> Note: the above will create one KML file with every object you digitized
> contained within one file, that is, if you digitized 10 regions, 50
> polylines, 200 points, you get one file with all these in one, you're
> conversion utility will determine if you can do this in one step or three
> (depending on how your translator can handle the varing topology), I
> personally convert the files manually using an enhanced text editor.
>
> HTH
> David Reid
>
> _____
>
> From: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Ishmael Okine
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:46 AM
> To: mapi...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to
> MapInfo
>
> It works.
> This is what i did:
>
> 1. after moving the popup window i drew the polygon
> Behalf Of Ishmael Okine
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:46 AM
> To: mapi...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to
> MapInfo
>
> It works.
> This is what i did:
>
>
> 2. saved as .jpg file
>
> 3. opened in mapinfo and digitized it
>
> Everything worked i.e. the polygon went to the correct location but the
> whole vectors is skewed from the original locations (road, regional borders,
> airport, etc)
>
> How can i get the vectors (road, regional borders, airport, secondary roads,
> etc) back in their original locations with the digitized polygon?
>
> Cheers,
> Ishmael
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM, David Reid <dwr...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> Move the popup window out of your way and begin your digitizing.
>
> HTH
> Dave
>
> _____
>
> Everything worked i.e. the polygon went to the correct location but the
> whole vectors is skewed from the original locations (road, regional borders,
> airport, etc)
>
> How can i get the vectors (road, regional borders, airport, secondary roads,
> etc) back in their original locations with the digitized polygon?
>
> Cheers,
> Ishmael
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM, David Reid <dwr...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> Move the popup window out of your way and begin your digitizing.
>
> HTH
> Dave
>
> _____
>
> From: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Ishmael Okine
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 6:44 AM
>
> To: mapi...@googlegroups.com
>
> Subject: Re: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to
> MapInfo
>
> Thanks Robert,
> I want to know how can i draw the polygon in Google earth map?
>
> Regards,
> Ishmael
>
> Behalf Of Ishmael Okine
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 6:44 AM
>
> To: mapi...@googlegroups.com
>
> Subject: Re: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to
> MapInfo
>
> Thanks Robert,
> I want to know how can i draw the polygon in Google earth map?
>
> Regards,
> Ishmael
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Robert Juan <robinlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ishmael,
>
> Maybe you could export your polygon in Mapinfo to shape file, and then use a
> free coverter to kml
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Robert
>
> De: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] En nombre
> de Ishmael Okine
> Enviado el: viernes, 03 de junio de 2011 11:44
> Para: mapi...@googlegroups.com
> Asunto: Re: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to MapInfo
>
> Juan,
>
> Thank you. Unfortunately I'm using version 9.0 and i cannot get the kml
> format inn there. My main problem is how i can draw the polygon in google
> earth map. When i click on the polygon it send me to a window where i can
> rename the polygon. I want to draw the polygon in a free style way and
> export to MapInfo.
>
> Is there any addin where i can install in my 9.0 version in mapinfo?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ishmael
>
>
> Hi Ishmael,
>
> Maybe you could export your polygon in Mapinfo to shape file, and then use a
> free coverter to kml
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Robert
>
> De: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] En nombre
> de Ishmael Okine
> Enviado el: viernes, 03 de junio de 2011 11:44
> Para: mapi...@googlegroups.com
> Asunto: Re: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to MapInfo
>
> Juan,
>
> Thank you. Unfortunately I'm using version 9.0 and i cannot get the kml
> format inn there. My main problem is how i can draw the polygon in google
> earth map. When i click on the polygon it send me to a window where i can
> rename the polygon. I want to draw the polygon in a free style way and
> export to MapInfo.
>
> Is there any addin where i can install in my 9.0 version in mapinfo?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ishmael
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Juan Berroa <jber...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ishamel,
>
> If you have MapInfo 10.5, you may save you polygon as KML and import it
> using File > Open Unversal Data
>
> Juan Pablo Berroa
>
> (809) 444-4528
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:19:42 -0700
> > Subject: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to MapInfo
> > From: oshwa...@gmail.com
>
> Ishamel,
>
> If you have MapInfo 10.5, you may save you polygon as KML and import it
> using File > Open Unversal Data
>
> Juan Pablo Berroa
>
> (809) 444-4528
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:19:42 -0700
> > Subject: [MI-L] How to draw polygon in Google earth and export to MapInfo
> > To: mapi...@googlegroups.com
>
> > Hi experts,
> > Can anybody show me how I can draw a polygon in Google earth and
> > export it as a tab file into MapInfo.
>
> > Thank you in advance.
>
> > Regards,
> > Ishmael
>
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> > Hi experts,
> > Can anybody show me how I can draw a polygon in Google earth and
> > export it as a tab file into MapInfo.
>
> > Thank you in advance.
>
> > Regards,
> > Ishmael
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