Cartographic Skills: Module 12 - Google Earth

In this week's module, we learned to convert our maps and layers associated with the maps into KMZ files in ArcMap. We later open these KMZ files in Google Earth where we created a map of South Florida and recorded a tour focusing on the more populated areas of South Florida.

The map that we created in Google Earth is based off the map that we previously made in Module 10 which was the 'South Florida Dot Density Population'. The Google Earth map that was created focuses on the 23 counties in South Florida. The KMZ files that were used for this map were created in ArcMap by using the 'Map to KML' and 'Layer to KML' tools. Before recording the tour of the more populated areas of South Florida, I had to drop placemarkers in each of the locations so the tour would focus on those areas specifically. The Google Earth software provided me with the recording tool which I used to create the South Florida tour.