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Create a map or story in Google Earth Web

Tutorial Contents

• Prerequisites

• Permit's Get Started!

• Create a projection and add places

• Adding a place from Street View

• Preview your finished project

• Add together rich data to your places

• Calculation photos, videos and text

• Previewing changes

• Styling placemarks

• Adding 3D views

• Changing the Info box

• Add data to your 2d placemark

• Adding videos

• Add lines and shapes to your project

• Draw a line

• Draw a shape

• Add together slides to your project

• Share your project

• To share a link to the project

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

• More with World creation tools

• Viewing your projects on web and mobile

• Pinning Projects

• Importing your KML files

• Exporting KML

• Discussion and Feedback

• What'due south Side by side

Prerequisites

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

Let's Get Started!

The new creation tools in Google Earth permit y'all to easily create and share maps and stories about our globe as an Earth project. You tin create a projection on any subject of your choosing, cartoon placemarks, lines and shapes, adding rich contextual information to your places (text, links, images, videos, 3D views and Street View), and organizing your projection into a narrative flow. You can share your projection and collaborate with others. In presentation mode, viewers will wing from i place to the next following the narrative of your projection, immersing them in the journey through Google Earth's imagery and the custom content you provide.

This tutorial will innovate you to the new cosmos tools, and walk you through the process of creating and sharing your own Globe projection. In order to complete this tutorial, you will need some text, photo and video content to add to your project. You can utilise your own content or yous can use the sample content provided past our friends at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). Download the cypher file below for the JGI images and extract the contents to a folder on your desktop.

JGI_sample_content.zilch (249k Zip file)

If you choose to follow along with our Jane Goodall case, you may want to preview the finished sample Jane Goodall story before you start the tutorial.

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Create a project and add places

1. Open Google Earth on your computer: https://globe.google.com/web
2. Click on the Projects icon in the left-hand navigation.
3. If you've never created a Project earlier, you will click the Create button to create a new project. If yous've created Earth projects before, then y'all'll see a list of your projects and can click the New project push to create a new project. If yous're not already logged into your Google account, y'all'll be prompted to exercise so.

4. In the Projection Details panel, click the Edit button to the correct of Untitled Project to edit the project'southward 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

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

   You'll notice that your edits are automatically saved in Google Drive equally you work.

5. Now it's time to add together your first identify to the map. There are ii means to add a place: dropping a placemark on the map or using Search to find a place. First, we'll try adding a placemark to the map:

   Navigate effectually the world until you see England. At present, click the Add placemark button in the creation toolbar at the bottom left-hand to actuate the placemark tool.

   

   And then click on the map, on England, to add the placemark.

   Tip: If y'all are not seeing country and other place names on the globe, endeavour irresolute your Map Style. Click on the Google Globe menu button and select Map Style. Alter your Map Style to Exploration and then that you tin can see place names on the globe.

6. In the Salvage to projection box, click into the Title field and name your placemark "Jane's Childhood". The Projection field should be ready to "Jane Goodall'south Journey to Gombe". Then click Salve.

   

   You lot should see your titled placemark announced in the list of features in the Projection Details panel.

7. Now let's add together 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 result.

   

8. On the Nairobi National Museum Noesis Card at right, click the Add to projection button.

   

   Click Save to add the 2d place to your project. You lot can shut the Knowledge Bill of fare past clicking on the Ten in the pinnacle-correct corner.

Adding a place from Street View

1. Now permit's add together a third and final identify - this time a place in Street View! Use the Search tool over again to wing to "Gombe National Park", but shut the Knowledge Carte without adding it to the Project.
2. Click on the Street View pegman in the lesser right corner. Blue lines and dots volition appear wherever Street View imagery is available. Click on the blue line or dot to enter Street View on one of the forested hills in the park.

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

   

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

Preview your finished projection

1. Click the Nowadays button to see your project presented in a narrative format.

   

2. Click adjacent and previous buttons in the Table of Contents at bottom left to fly to each feature in your projection. Click the back push - the arrow in the summit left corner - to exit the presentation.

   • Tip: Yous can besides drop a placemark on the globe by clicking the New feature push button and select Add placemark.

   • Tip: To change the narrative club of your project, go to the Project Details panel and reorder the characteristic listing past clicking and dragging the features into a new gild.

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Add rich information to your places

Calculation photos, videos and text

1. In the Project Details panel, hover over the first feature in your project and click the Edit push button to open the Holding Editor panel.

   

2. Click on the Camera push button.

   

   Here you volition run into options to upload an image from your estimator, choose a photograph from your Google Photos albums, search the web for images, select an image by URL or add YouTube videos.

   

   Using the search selection, search for images of Bournemouth (Jane'south babyhood dwelling) and select 1 that yous like. Click Select to see the image appear with a thumbnail view in the Holding Editor console.

   

3. Click the camera button once again to add a second photograph. Search for and add together a second photograph. Adding multiple photos will create an image carousel in your Info box.

4. Click the Description 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 exist hyperlinked.

   Jane Goodall grew upwardly in Bournemouth, England. Growing up, she was fascinated by all kinds of animals. When she was immature, her favorite books were Dr. Dolittle and the Tarzan series. All she wanted to practise was go to Africa, observe the incredible animals living there, and write books about them.

   

Previewing changes

Click the Preview presentation push button to encounter your changes in presentation manner. Click the back button to get back to the Property Editor panel and continue editing.

Styling placemarks

1. Scroll down the Property Editor panel and find the Placemark section. Click on the placemark size and change the size to Large.
2. Click on the pigment bucket icon to change the placemark color to xanthous.

3. Click on the placemark overflow menu and select See more than icons. Search the icons using the word "book" and select the book icon to stand for Jane's childhood.

   

   Tip: You lot tin also add a custom icon (your own icon prototype file) past clicking the placemark overflow menu and selecting Upload custom icon. Your icons must be in jpg or png file format and we recommend you use an image size of 128 x 128 pixels or 64 x 64 pixels (extremely big icons may impact the performance of the app).

Adding 3D views

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

1. Click on the placemark and elevate the marker to Bournemouth (only west 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 Globe's surface using the compass or keyboard shortcuts until you find a view of Bournemouth that you lot like.

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

   

Changing the Info box

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

1. In the Property Editor panel click the drop down arrow on the right-side of the Info box and change the Info box from Pocket-size info box to Large info box.
2. Click the Preview presentation button to see the changes. Decide which style you like best!

Add data to your second placemark

Now allow'south add together information to the other placemarks in your project.

1. Click the dorsum button to go back to the Projection Details panel.

2. Hover over the 2nd placemark and click the Edit button .

3. Since nosotros added this placemark from a Knowledge Card, it displays data from the Google Knowledge Graph (yous tin click the Preview presentation button to see the default information displayed). You could choose to keep the Knowledge Bill of fare information as is, or you tin can click "Replace" in the Holding Editor panel to delete this information then add your own content. In this case, let's delete the Google information card content.

   

4. Continue the championship "Nairobi National Museum" given past the Knowledge Graph, but add a new description 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 every bit a secretarial assistant. Dr. Leakey was looking for someone to begin a study of chimpanzees to proceeds insight into human beings' evolutionary past.

5. Add an image past uploading the file titled jane_and_leakey.jpg (found in JGI_sample_content.goose egg) from your figurer.

6. Gear up a 3D view and click the Capture this view push button.

   

7. Now edit your third and final placemark, Jane's Meridian. Add the following description:

   Jane Goodall arrived in Gombe in July of 1960. The area was located in what was then 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 alone. Armed only with her binoculars and a notebook, Jane would climb to Gombe'due south highest peak in search of the chimpanzees. Over the years, Jane's inquiry led to many new discoveries, for example that chimpanzees know how to make and use tools, like humans practise. Her research squad has studied the behavior and followed the lives of the chimpanzees of Gombe for many decades at present.

Adding videos

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

2. Search for "jane goodall termite fishing" and select the showtime search effect to add the video to the place.

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Add lines and shapes to your project

Describe a line

1. In the Project Details panel, click the New feature push and select Depict line or shape (Note: You lot tin can also click the Draw line or shape button in the cosmos toolbar at the bottom of your screen).

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

3. In the Add together to projection box, proper name your line and click Edit place.

   

4. In the Width and color department, click on the width dropdown and change the line width to eight pixels.

   

5. Click on the colour palette to select cherry for your line color. Alternatively click Custom colors to create your own color swatch (Note: the hexadecimal code can be edited directly for exact web color matches).

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

Tip: If you open the Holding Editor panel for your line, you will be able to drag and move your line points to reshape your line, but yous can't delete or add segments.

Draw a shape

1. Now, nosotros'll add a shape. In the Project Details console, click the New characteristic push and select Draw line or shape.

2. On the map, click to add a series of points to draw your shape. Each fourth dimension yous click, a new segment is added to the outline of your shape. To finish your shape, click once more on the first point that was added to shut the shape. For the Jane Goodall projection, you might draw a shape effectually the enquiry station in Gombe.

   

3. In the Add to Project box, proper noun your shape and click Edit place.

4. In the Outline width and color section, alter the outline to red.

5. In the Fill up colour department, change the fill colour to yellow. Yous can also modify the transparency using the drop downward menu above the color palette.

6. Adjust the view and click Capture this view.

   

Tip: You tin can reshape your polygon past clicking and dragging points, but y'all tin can't delete segments. Yous can not click and elevate your entire shape to a new location.

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Add slides to your projection

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

2. Give the slide a championship and description.

   Jane Goodall'southward Journeying to Gombe

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

3. Add an epitome past selecting the Photographic camera push, so Upload and selecting the file entitled jane_peak.jpg (institute in JGI_sample_content.aught) from your computer.

4. Click the back push button to get to the Projection Details panel.

5. Click on the slide in the feature list and drag it to the top of the listing of features.

6. Now click the Nowadays button to run into how your new slide introduces your project.

   

Tip: You can add together slides to innovate your project, create capacity or sections, to add together an ending message or credits and more than.

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

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You have many options when you lot want to share your Earth project with others. All projects are individual by default — simply you lot equally the creator of the projection can view or edit information technology. Beneath you'll acquire how to share the project, likewise as how to interact on your project with others.

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

   

2. Click Get shareable link.

   

3. Copy the link. You can now share this link with others so that they can view your project. Note: if you turn link sharing on, anyone who the link is shared with tin view your project. If you lot'd like to command access permissions by Google account then you will likely want to use the method described directly below instead of turning link sharing on..

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

1. Click the Share push on the Projection Details panel.

2. Under People, type in the email addresses of the people you'd similar to share the map with straight, or choose from your contacts, and click Done. Y'all tin can select whether the people you invite can edit the projection or just view it. If a person does not have edit access, they will not see the Edit buttons in the Project Details panel and thus will not have access to the Property Editor for any features in the project.

   

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Viewing your projects on web and mobile

Y'all can find maps and stories you lot ain and that have been shared with you past clicking on Projects in the navigation and looking through the list in the Projects panel. In the listing, y'all'll see maps and stories organized by the categories Pinned to Earth, KML files and Recent. You can besides use the New project push button to open projects and KML files that exercise non automatically appear in your Projects list. You lot can also open an Globe projection directly from Google Drive, or from a shared link.

Yous can view your projects on a mobile device past opening the Google World app, clicking the carte du jour in the upper lefthand corner and selecting Projects. You can not edit your projects on mobile at this time.

Pinning Projects

In society to ensure that a projection always appears in your listing of projects (even if y'all haven't recently opened it), hover over the project in the Projects panel and click the pin icon. The project volition now appear in the Pinned to Earth section on your device.,

Tip: Pinned projects are always visible on the globe (unless you toggle off visibility using the Hibernate projection button), even when you lot're exploring a different project in presentation style. Yous can use this feature to "brew up" several different projects and/or KML files together.

Importing your KML files

If you've already created a map using some other mapping tool such as Google My Maps, Tour Builder or World 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, you 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 across devices. Local files are stored only in the local browser storage on the computer used to import the file.

Before yous tin import your KML files, you must turn on KML import in your Google Earth settings.

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

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

3. Click Salve.

At present y'all can import a KML file.

1. Go to the Projects panel and click the New project push. Before you turned on KML file import, clicking this button but allowed y'all to create a new project or open a project from Google Drive. Now you will see options to create a KML file and to import a KML file from your computer or Google Drive.
2. Select Import KML file from computer.
3. Select the KML file from your computer and click Open.
4. Your KML file will announced in your Projects panel. You tin now explore and edit your KML.

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

Tip: If you create or import KML files, you lot will non exist able to convert them to Earth projects (stored in the Deject), and then y'all will not exist able to share your KML files with others.

Exporting KML

To export a KML of your project, go to the Projection Details panel and click the overflow card , then select Consign as KML file.

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Discussion and Feedback

Take questions about this tutorial? Want to requite the states some feedback? Visit the Google Earth Help Community to talk over it with others.

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