Importing KML files and GIS imagery in Google Earth
Before uploading the program Google Earth on your computer, you need to first check whether your computer have a graphic card or not. You are able to check this without shutting down your computer. You just need to run ‘dxdiag’ from your computer command prompt and you will surely obtain all the data about installed components on your computer. Now you must select the display tab and then note down your graphic card details. Now let us have a look at how to locate points of interest on the program Google Earth.
In order to locate points of interest, you first need to enable different layers, which are listed in the layers panel on the left side of Google Earth window. This layer panel includes a number of layers such as 3-D buildings, hotels and roads. Simply enable thee layers and you are able to view detailed map of any place on the program Google Earth. You can even delete the cache files of this program. Removing of cache memory is significant to run this program comfortably. In order to do this, users first need to select Server Log Out option from file menu. You will obtain cache option from Google Earth’s tool menu. From here you are able to delete all the cache files.
But if you can not log in to the program Google Earth then first you need to unhide all the hidden files on your computer. Then you have to search for dbCache.dat and dnCache.dat.index files from the program Google Earth directly. Now you need to select both these files and then move them to recycle bin. Once you delete these files, your Google Earth program will run as it was running earlier. Users can not delete any trademark data, which comes with this program application. This kind of data should keep in one piece whenever you make use of Google Earth imagery. As Google is brand logo for each Google Earth product, it is mandatory to display it on every Google Earth product.
You can set KML and KMZ files to open them on the program Google Earth. It is crucial that you must check every KML and KMZ file that is set properly with MIME before you attempt to post it on the program Google Earth. If these files are not set correctly, thee files are opened as *.ZIP and *.txt files. Therefore, you should assist that you have set correct MIME types to your files. When MIME files show errors, then to correct these errors, you need to set file httpd.conf to application/ynd.google-Earth.kml+xml for KML files as well as application/vnd.google-Earth.kmz for KMZ files.
Now let us have a look at how you import GIS imagery files in the program Google Earth. Two ways are there through which users can open GIS files in the program Google Earth. You are able to open thee files from file menu directly. You are also able to open FIS images files just by dragging and dropping them in the Google Earth imagery. Google Earth will automatically open these files. But, NAD83 projections will not get open in Google Earth as this program recently supports only to WGS84 projections datum projections.
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