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Portal Updates: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 Page Views: 36738
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  The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth - Africa submitted by Andy B
Update: Smaller Google Earth KML downloads for individual countries, counties/regions and site types are now available.
The download links can be found on our "Browse by Country/Type" page.
We also have a KMZ download for Google Earth containing the locations of all 18000+ prehistoric and other ancient sites we have listed on the Megalithic Portal, with summary descriptions and thumbnail image, where available.
http://www.megalithic.org.uk/megp/megalithic_earth.kmz (1.6MB download)
You will need to download, install and run the Google Earth application first. http://earth.google.com
If you already have it installed, you will need to upgrade to version 4 if you want to use this file, due to the many 'foreign' characters in the European sites.
Once installed, download our file above and do a File/Open to open the file in Google Earth.
The contents of this file are copyright to the many Portal contributors, it is for personal use only and it is not for redistribution outside of Google Earth. No warranty is given as to the accuracy or suitability of this data - ie. please don't try to fly any planes or aim any missiles with it!
Let us know how you get on with it, and please submit corrections, updates and new text and images for inclusion back at the Megalithic Portal site pages that are linked.
Cheers,
Andy
Megalithic Portal Founder and Lead Developer
Note: Google Earth downloads improved and updated
 The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth - Hampshire and Isle of Wight submitted by Andy B
Screen Shot from Google Earth with the Megalithic Portal dataset loaded. Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight
 The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth - United States submitted by Andy B
Screen Shot from Google Earth with the Megalithic Portal dataset loaded. A view of the USA giving a first look at the growing number of sites we have listed here.
 The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth - Looking across the Channel submitted by Andy B
Screen Shot from Google Earth with the Megalithic Portal dataset loaded. The tip of Normandy and Channel Islands, looking across towards the UK and Ireland.
 The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth - Callanish and Sleeping Beauty submitted by Andy B
Screen Shot from Google Earth with the Megalithic Portal dataset loaded. Fly over the 'Sleeping Beauty' from Callanish.
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Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 23 August 2006 | Fantastic.
Congratulations on this success. Terry Meaden | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by LizH on Wednesday, 23 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Fascinating Andy though almost too much information - difficult to see anything in the more crowded places. Also a few probs. with mapping? I found some sites apparently in Nigeria which are actually in Europe! (Will let you know details if you want). But I can see it may use up some lunchtimes. | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Wednesday, 23 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | Liz,
If you spot a site that has an error, please click on the link in the Google Earth listing to go to the Portal site page. Then add a comment to the page.
Cheers, |
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Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 23 August 2006 | Great - very cool.
It would be good to be able to remove some of the sites? Say by country? But very good work done there. | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Wednesday, 23 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | This will hopefully be on the way shortly |
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Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by aliguana on Sunday, 20 May 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | yeah, it would be better if it could be split up by country.. so you could just download Ireland, or France, or Sweden etc. Awesome work though. |
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Re: Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Shunt on Wednesday, 23 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I've saved many spots on GE already but this is very convenient! | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Wednesday, 23 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | I've been having a look at some stats. Interestingly we have over 2000 sites in our database with just a 'Nearest Town', 'Nearest Village' and no proper long/lat data.
If anyone spots one of these (there are a lot in the USA and Far East), see if you can work out a long/lat and post it on the site page as a comment. This will allow us to add the site to the map. It doesn't have to be exact, just enough to give the approximate location that will give others something to go on when looking for the site in the field. (If it's an approximate location, please say this too so we can add this as a note.)
Another interesting statistic - how many ancient sites does the Megalithic Portal list from the 5 countries of the British Isles?
Currently 8737 | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Nick- on Thursday, 24 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | Excellent idea this, ..... But with regards to French sites listed on the Megalithic Portal, "Google Earth" doesn't provide any satellite photos with enough detail ...... With google one gets a very distant blurred patchwork of fields when viewing French sites.... Using "Geoportail" (IGN site) photo of the 'Menhir du Ger', I can zoom in close enough to see the stone itself...
http://www.geoportail.fr/
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by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Thursday, 24 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Thanks for the suggestion Nick. Note to Klingon: Is it possible to create long/lat links to Geoportail views? |
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by Klingon on Friday, 15 September 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Unfortunately not. They use a cartesian coordinate system, not lat/long and the map is inside an iframe in the main window. |
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by bat400 on Friday, 15 September 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I guess we ought to have known they would use a cartesian coordinate system ..... :) |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Friday, 15 September 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | I thought not. Note to all French people: Sorry, no offence to you, but your great competitor to Google Earth is PANTS (useless). Please complain to your government and ask them to fix it so we can search for and link to sites.
Thanks. |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Nick- on Sunday, 17 December 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | Just saw this comment LOL. I've been trying to get through to Geoportail these last few weeks, and it just will not load(nothing to do with the browser I use either)........ And trying to copy links to certain areas does not work too..........So the site is crap in many ways.
But trying to use Google to have a look at sites in France is a wasted effort.......Lousy distant blurred satellite images just aren't any use at all.........
And Google in general, is proving to be rather less 'pure' than assumed before, especially with their logging of personal data, and kniving with Chinese censorship....... |
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by TheCaptain on Monday, 18 December 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | After struggling for a while, I have learned to use the WONDERFUL geoportail website. It isn't the most user friendly, but is improving all the time.
First of all I have to turn off my firewall and suchlike, otherwise the pictures and maps do not load. There must be a better way around this. Then to find places, I have to translate into degrees, minutes and seconds from decimal degrees.
But it is possible to search for community names as well as coordinates, and there are the 1:25000 maps as well as fantastic aerial (and satellite) pictures, where individual stones and buildings etc can be made out. One day I'll get round to posting a userguide for French sites here..... |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, 14 September 2006 | | I would love to see this in v3.0 and with files by region. Not everyone is working with new enough and powerful enough processors to employ this.It crashes V3. | [ Reply to This ]
Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Thursday, 14 September 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Output by Region is coming soon. Unfortunately the many 'foreign' characters in our European sites mean it won't work with G.E. v.3. It's their bug not ours! Thanks |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Enki on Monday, 26 March 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Fantastic resource, Andy. Well done!
One problem - I saved the placemark to 'My Places', but next time I start Google Earth I don't have the site icons - just a square chequered blob. Am I doing something wrong? | [ Reply to This ]
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by Anonymous on Tuesday, 10 April 2007 | | I don't think you're doing something wrong, I'm having the same problem.... |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 10 April 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Sorry, I got it wrong because I had 2 subdirectories called Turkey!
There's a slightly larger file (15KB) there now. |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by aliguana on Monday, 21 May 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | that checkered blob is this:
http://www.megalithic.org.uk/megp/images/article/ge_icons_g.png
it looks like Google Earth isn't saving the actual icon, just a link to it. Except the link leads to ALL the icons, not just one.
If you have Photoshop or something you could chop it up, but you'd lose the meaning then.
Any chance you could post up the individual icons (with their name) so those of us who add to My Places can re-ad the icon too? |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Tuesday, 22 May 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | I'm not using individual icons, they are all taken from that icon block you linked to. Google Earth is supposed to be able to use 'blocks' of icons like this. This is deliberate to save downloading lots of fiddly little icons and I am following their spec exactly in doing this.
You will have to complain to Google to find out why it's not working. It works for me so I suspect it is something to do with the abilities of different video cards. Very annoying, sorry.
I do intend to split up the download but have been busy with other things on the Portal. Glad to see people are using it, I will get to it in due course. |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Tuesday, 22 May 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | ... one reason for doing it like this is that we actually have 3 different icons for each site, a green one (no photo), red one (photo) and grey one (destroyed site), in the same style as the Megalith Maps. Doing this with individual icon files = 70 odd icons x 3 = a nightmare. |
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by Anonymous on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 | | Unfortunately it doesn't work with the latest Google Earth Version. Loading the KMZ-File results in an Error-Message. | [ Reply to This ]
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by Klingon on Thursday, 26 April 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | I use Google Earth 4.0.2737
No problems.
Can you post the error message? |
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by Anonymous on Sunday, 15 July 2007 | Hi,
Would it be possible to group these in folders by, say country? The whole list brings my machine to a crawl, but if they were in folders, you can choose which are displayed.
Many thanks,
John
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Sunday, 15 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Yes we're working on this at the moment. Come back in a few weeks |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Smaller Google Earth KML downloads for individual countries, counties/regions and site types are now available.
The downloads can be found on our "Browse by Country/Type" page
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/topics.php?countries=1
Click on the link at the top: "download data for Google Earth [KML] or Spreadsheet [CSV]" to make them visible.
Then click on the [KML] links to download your selections of data by individual country, county/region or site types.
The downloads are now compartmentalised into folders to allow some data to be turned off. This cures the problem of too many visible points overloading things.
You can also still get a full dump of all the Portal data as a compressed KMZ file here:
http://www.megalithic.org.uk/megp/megalithic_earth.kmz (1.8MB download)
You will need to download, install and run the Google Earth application first. You will need version 4, it will not work with Google Earth version 3.
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 24 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Any chance of ordering the countries better? e.g. region/alphabetic country. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by VirtHist on Tuesday, 24 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Love this facility Adam, well done. I'm hoping we can make some simple reconstructions historical models for it at some point! | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by tfar on Tuesday, 24 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | You can see a Google Earth video tour of the main megalithic temple sites in Malta and Gozo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4WBL7trBw
Borġ in-Nadur, Xrobb il-Għaġin, Tas-Silġ, Tarxien, Kordin III, Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Ħaġar Qim, Mnajdra, Ta’ Ħaġrat, Skorba, Tal-Qadi, Bugibba, Ġgantija.
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Tuesday, 24 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I think the director is a bit too keen on his whizzy titling special effects. The rest was good though. |
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by Anonymous on Thursday, 18 October 2007 | I have tried to click on links to download this for use in google earth. It is not working. Where can I find the download so I can load this into my google earth?
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by Anonymous on Sunday, 04 May 2008 | | WoW Awesome my users will eat this stuff up we are always looking for primitive ways things were done having the locations that they can check out if they are in the area will be fantastic cant wait to post your site here....
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by Anonymous on Sunday, 10 May 2009 | Thanks Andy - the google earth addition is invaluable and has lead to me visiting many more sites. Gives a real sense of centres of known activity and there are some very obvious hotspots !!
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by davidmorgan on Thursday, 13 August 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I've just downloaded a couple of CSV files and I see the coords are to only 2 decimal places - any chance of a few more, please? | [ Reply to This ]
Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Thursday, 13 August 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Not for me they're not, on Google Earth or CSV. I'm getting 12 D.P. ??? |
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Re: The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth (Score: 1)
by davidmorgan on Friday, 14 August 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Sorry, Andy, my fault - the data were there, the cells in my spreadsheet just needed reformatting. Cheers. |
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