You can get blocks (shape files) by county and yes the volume of data is huge. Google earth will choke with kml files with block level data for an entire state.
We've written a tool to load these files by county. Right now the output is to MySQL tables but of course a slight change will get you KML files. Bill On 8/11/2014 1:45 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: > Kristian et al, > > While the ogr2ogr would work, this would require having the blocks in > individual shape files if you wanted only a few. I think you can only > get them as a shape (for free anyway) by whole state...could be wrong. > That would either create a very large kml, which may not load in a > google map, or could eat a lot of memory in google earth. i.e. Texas has > almost 1 million blocks. I'm not sure you could load that many objects > into either program although I haven't tried. Using a GIS tool to only > select the ones you need and export to KML might be a better approach > for those only needing a few blocks mapped. It might be well worth the > time to have Brian or another GIS competent person do it for you. > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Kristian Hoffmann <kh...@fire2wire.com > <mailto:kh...@fire2wire.com>> wrote: > > Specifically... > > ogr2ogr -f output.kml input.shp > > -Kristian > > > On 08/11/2014 09:00 AM, Sam Tetherow wrote: >> ogr2ogr will do all sorts of Geo formats, geojson, tiger shape, >> kml, kmz. >> >> >> On 08/11/2014 10:24 AM, Gino Villarini wrote: >>> Anyone has a way to convert files for google earth evaluation? >>> >>> >>> >>> Gino A. Villarini >>> President >>> Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. >>> www.aeronetpr.com <http://www.aeronetpr.com> >>> @aeronetpr >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wireless mailing list >>> Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
