Post by frankmcvey (Angel) on May 6, 2018 21:08:22 GMT
While we're all great fans of Google Earth, there are some aspects that could use improvement, one of these being the Water features. At present, if you enable the Water Bodies feature (Borders and Labels > Labels) and Water Body Outlines (More > Water Body Outlines) you'll get a crude representation of some of the larger water bodies, such as lakes and river estuaries. Unfortunately this layer does not include rivers as yet.
Some 3rd party .kmz files can help in the research of rivers, eg. www.geonames.org/kml/feature-networklink.kml , but this simply opens a network link which will comprehensively label river mouths (in the UK at least), but does not trace the course of individual rivers. I haven't yet found such a resource.
Each of us can, with the aid of Google Earth and a good map, trace the course of a river using the "Path" feature on the menu strip at the top of the GE viewer, but it's time-consuming (reckon on a couple of hours to trace a 150-mile-long river) to do so at a useful resolution (ie from less than around 2000 ft altitude).
The .kmz file in this post traces the course of most major rivers in Great Britain from source to outlet and may be of some use to canoeists and fishermen etc looking for a "get-in" or "get-out" spot, or for teachers, students or researchers and you're welcome to use it freely for such purposes.
If you intend to use the .kmz or any part thereof for marketing, advertising, business presentations or for making money from it in any respect, then I'd appreciate a donation to support this forum - you can make it via the Paypal link on the main menu-bar at the top of the forum opening page.
If you find yourself bored and looking for something useful to do, then please feel free to trace and post your own favourite UK river(s) .kmz in this thread, and I'll add your work to the main file. I'd recommend that you use a good map (eg the UK Ordnance Survey) to identify the source of the river and work from there to the estuary - it's much easier than trying to work from the outlet of a river to its source. (DAMHIKT!)
Cheers,
Frank
Some 3rd party .kmz files can help in the research of rivers, eg. www.geonames.org/kml/feature-networklink.kml , but this simply opens a network link which will comprehensively label river mouths (in the UK at least), but does not trace the course of individual rivers. I haven't yet found such a resource.
Each of us can, with the aid of Google Earth and a good map, trace the course of a river using the "Path" feature on the menu strip at the top of the GE viewer, but it's time-consuming (reckon on a couple of hours to trace a 150-mile-long river) to do so at a useful resolution (ie from less than around 2000 ft altitude).
The .kmz file in this post traces the course of most major rivers in Great Britain from source to outlet and may be of some use to canoeists and fishermen etc looking for a "get-in" or "get-out" spot, or for teachers, students or researchers and you're welcome to use it freely for such purposes.
If you intend to use the .kmz or any part thereof for marketing, advertising, business presentations or for making money from it in any respect, then I'd appreciate a donation to support this forum - you can make it via the Paypal link on the main menu-bar at the top of the forum opening page.
If you find yourself bored and looking for something useful to do, then please feel free to trace and post your own favourite UK river(s) .kmz in this thread, and I'll add your work to the main file. I'd recommend that you use a good map (eg the UK Ordnance Survey) to identify the source of the river and work from there to the estuary - it's much easier than trying to work from the outlet of a river to its source. (DAMHIKT!)
Cheers,
Frank
