Intermediate Google Earth for Planners

Total course duration: 40:00m (Includes 5 videos)
Price: $25.00
Get Course Subscribe

Google Earth is Google's popular and powerful geographic mapping tool that incorporates an array of planning functions. These intermediate lessons explain how to load your own images onto Google Earth and manipulate them so they appear properly in the landscape. You'll learn how to create and manage new layers, add paths to represent roads, and create a tour of the locations you've created. The course also covers skyline analysis and how to measure distances.

 

About your instructor: Chuck Donley, AICP is an urban planner who specializes in applying technology to planning issues. He brings 30 years of experience in public and private sector planning working on current and long range processes.

 

Course materials: This course references several files that you can optionally use to follow-along with the instructor: Intermediate Google Earth files (ZIP, 700KB).

 

Chapters

  • 1. Intermediate Google Earth for Planners - Introduction
    06:36m
  • 2. Loading images and bookmarking locations

    This tutorial explains how to bookmark a location to My Places, use the Google Earth navigation controls, and load your own images onto Google Earth.

    10:30m
  • 3. Adding a road or trail

    This tutorial explains how to a path to represent a road or trail, adjusting the color and width, and adding a place mark to save view locations.

    13:29m
  • 4. Creating a presentation using everything you've learned

    This chapter explores ways that you could bring your presentation to life using the techniques you’ve learned so far It also explains how to use Google Earth for a skyline analysis.

    07:43m
  • 5. Setting up views and tours / Review

    This chapter shows how to set up views and tours in My Places for easy access during presentations, and reviews of everything you have learned so far.

    07:59m
Get Course Subscribe