Google Earth User Guide - Manual (Page 95)

Using Addresses
Your data file can use street-level addressing to position each point on the Earth's surface. Google Earth can
ingest georeferenced and non-georeferenced information. At this time, Google Earth can only ingest such
information for addresses located within the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italy, Germany,
and Spain. Google Earth cannot place any address that contains a P.O. box.
The following types of address formatting are supported:
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Single-address field - You can define the street, city, state, country, and zip code in a single field. For
example, a single field with the column label of address might have the following value:
123 Easy Street, San Jose, CA, 95330 Multiple address fields - You can also define street, city, state,
country, and zip code in multiple fields. In this case, a field with a column label of street would have as
its value:
123 Easy Street
In this scenario, additional fields would be defined for city, state, and zip code.
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Partial address default values - Because some of your points might have only partial addresses, you
can use the data import wizard to define default values for missing fields, such as state or zip Code.
Using Geographic Coordinates
You can use geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) to indicate the position of the point data in your text
file. For importing generic text files, Google Earth supports coordinates described in
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Degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS)
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Decimal degrees (DDD)
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Degrees, minutes, with decimal seconds (DMM)
Refer to Entering Advanced Coordinates for a detailed description of the latitude/longitude coordinates
supported in Google Earth as well as the type of syntax supported.
Optional and Descriptive Fields
You can use any number of fields in your custom data file to label and describe the points and display them the
Google Earth application. Optional fields can be defined as the following values:
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Text or strings - A string field can contain both numbers and alphabetic characters. What actually
defines a string with respect to style templates is that the string itself is either enclosed in quotation
marks, or contains white space so that it cannot be interpreted as a number.
This is an important distinction to keep in mind when using style templates applied to fields.
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Integer
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Floating point value
With style templates, you can take advantage of these field types to create useful visual effects in the 3D
viewer such as graphs or color-coding of data based on the values in the fields.
Viewing Vector Data Fields
After you have imported vector data into Google Earth, you can use the Table Window to display the data
fields contained within the vector data. To do this, select Table from the Tools menu. The window appears over
the Google Earth application, listing the data fields of all placemark items in tabular form.
The Table window displays internal data fields for all vector data currently listed as well as all other entries in
the Places panel. You can use the scroll bar to the right of the window to scroll through numerous entries, and
you can collapse the display of items you don't want to see by removing the check next to the name of the item
you want to minimize.
The Table window offers the following features:
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Sort the data by selected columns by clicking on the column header for the field you want to sort by.