How to convert Dwg to KML and upload to Google Maps! (MyGeoData)

hey guys are you tired of eyeballing and wasting your precious time in websites and trying to draw your side boundary how it is instead of like just importing it straight away into google maps or google earth well don't worry today we'll show you a new way how to import your dwg into google maps by using just an online website for free i am ferdi and this is another episode of civil textures let's begin so the first thing you want to do is you want to open your drawing and then we're going to go to our proposed site layout and we're going to copy the side boundary and we're going gonna create a new drawing and paste to the original coordinates make sure your ucs is set to world then we're gonna delete all the paper space uh items blocks that you have and then we're going to purge it we will i'll explain the reason later on but it's an important step and then go ahead and save your drawing we will save it in our extra folder name it side boundary and then we can go ahead and close that one and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to my geodata cloud website i'll attach the link in the description below and we're gonna go to go to converter and then we're gonna input our format dwg and then for google earth we want kml and we're gonna go check convert to double jkml and we're gonna upload our file we're gonna add our file side boundary open continue and if you've done all the steps so far correctly and removed everything then you will see where exactly your site is and we're just gonna go ahead hit convert now we're gonna download it and as you can see it's been downloaded what we're gonna do is copy it and go back to our extra files and just paste it in there and then what you want to do is you want to go to my maps google not google maps my maps the reason being is google has developed a platform where you can upload your own maps so let's go ahead and create a new map and what we can do is we can hit import and we can upload our file as soon as uploaded google my maps should straightaway zoom in now as you can see here we have only one entity and if we hit the bucket icon we can change the color of the line we'll keep it red because that's where usually side boundaries are and we can just slightly increase the thickness and we can name it side boundary if we just hit edit and just name it side bound save and then what you can do is we can change the base map and add the satellite image as you can see it's more accurate than eyeballing it so what you can extra thing you can do is you can share it so basically what you can do is go to share and let's say the map type tool is cts tutorial hit ok and then what we're gonna do is get link and we're gonna remove the restriction to anyone with link we're just gonna copy the link and if we paste the link here you can see that your client or any other colleague wants to see where the site is and actually access and see where it is and the same applies for google earth so if we go to google earth sorry explore google earth because google earth is the actually application software if we go to google earth if you give it a few seconds to load and if we hit the projects and create a new project create an import kml file from the computer and we import it will take us straight away where the site is and see you can see where the side is and this can be shared as well so now the reason we didn't want to import leave any title blocks in because the title blocks would have been imported with the boundary line and then it would have been all over the place so just put it on a clear drawing with just a side boundary layer with your sound binder polyline and you should be fine i hope you find this video useful and it will may make your life way easier than eyeballing the side boundary in google maps or any other software that you use to show your site location plan if you like the video please hit the like button if you loved it please hit the sub button i would like to thank our patron ben and mikkel for allowing us to use the autocad license thank you very much and see you next time

Channel: Civil Tech Source

Views: 51,613

Keywords: KML, Civil TechSource, Site Boundary, Boundaries, Site, Civil, Techsource, Engineering, MyMaps, Google, KML file, AutoCAD file, How to upload KML files, Convert dwg to KML

Id: TMhpp-_-bgs

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020