Shape2Earth – shapefile to KML converter – Beta 2 available

June 1, 2006 11 Comments

Tim Beermann posted in my comments that:

Shape2Earth can now be downloaded and tested at http://interactiveearth.blogspot.com/.

I have not had much time to implement a lot of the features I would like .. but those will come with time.

For those who have not been following Shape2Earth Beta 2 news, you can get up to speed on the enhancements over on Tim’s blog. Good news as GIS professionals are really starting to take a liking to Google Earth and making it part of their workflows.

Ah, but Google Earth’s pesky EULA gets in the way.

Take those old fashion shapefiles and make them more usable

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11 Responses to Shape2Earth – shapefile to KML converter – Beta 2 available

  1. Tom Kralidis says:
    June 1, 2006 at 8:18 pm

    Thanks for the info. Isn’t KML going against the idea of seperating content from style?

    I love what Google has done for geospatial in general. I would love it even more if/when publically adopted specifications (read OGC) are implemented in their approaches.

  2. Chad says:
    June 5, 2006 at 6:51 am

    FYI… World Wind can just open a shapefile in it.

    And as was stared in the IRC channel: shapetokml is child’s play

    And as one of the SoC projects, the shapefile importing is getting a big overhaul: http://alteviltech.com/blog/2006/05/24/world-wind-summer-of-code-projects-detailed/

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  4. Jeff Lake says:
    June 10, 2006 at 2:01 pm

    I might suggest in the next revision, to encapsulate the node in

  5. Jeff Lake says:
    June 10, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    I might suggest in the next revision, to encapsulate the description node in

  6. Tim Beermann says:
    June 14, 2006 at 10:26 pm

    From what I have seen so far with ESRI’s ArcExplorer, users will not be able to load local data …with the exception of KML files. World Wind also supports KML loading, as does Google Maps. I’m not sure if I like the idea of KML becoming a primary geospatial data format, but is sure is spreading rapidly.

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  8. Tim Beermann says:
    January 11, 2007 at 7:04 am

    Shape2Earth Verion 1.0 has been released at http://shape2earth.com. It’s intended to lower the bar for those without GIS software who want to render GIS data for viewing in Google Earth.

  9. Saadat says:
    August 28, 2007 at 5:02 am

    Its give us very good results.

  10. Shuvabrata Chatterjee says:
    November 23, 2007 at 3:20 am

    Let me try

  11. Anton says:
    December 16, 2007 at 11:24 am

    There is also another freeware convertor between shapefiles and KML available called GSpatial, which can do some nifty stuff such as thematics on shapefiles. You can download it here: http://www.svggis.com/gspatial.aspx