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? is basically synonymous with line and when Google Earth sees that it knows that the values between the. This may look a little scary, but never fear! See where the dual tags.

A KML parcel boundary file ( sample data)įor a given parcel boundary KML file, what does the data actually look like? Sure we’ve seen a visual representation, what does something like Google Earth read in order to turn that KML into an image? We can actually check this out!.

If you don’t have a preferred text editor, Notepad (Windows) or Text Edit (Mac) will work just fine.

However all hope is not lost! In this tutorial we’ll walk through a couple of ways to turn that line into polygon that we can add some fill color.

In effect, the parcel is just a line with the same start and end point and conceptually there is no “inside” and thus no area to fill. Why? Because even though the parcel looks like an area, it’s actually formatted as a line. If you try to do that in Google Earth, you’ll find that you won’t be able to. But let’s say you want to color in (or fill) the parcel. We’ve shown here that you can style and create a nice looking map with the data as-is. For many cases, you’ll be fine with the KML file as you downloaded. Now you want to use that parcel either in a printed map or a web map. You’ve downloaded a KML file of a parcels boundaries from the Scott County PVA. From line to polygon Some methods for converting those polygon-looking lines from the PVA into the polygons they should be! This data tutorial was created by Ryan Cooper on Jfor GSCPC.