In the past few days I've been doing a lot of biking and studying a lot of maps. I had the idea to draw a map of all Minneapolis bike paths and bike lanes into Google Earth, but it turns out that wasn't necessary due to the awesome Image Overlay function.
I simply converted the PDF map available from the City of Minneapolis website to JPEG and, using some points of reference, overlaid it precisely where it belonged in Google Earth.
You can easily add this overlay to Google Earth by downloading and opening the following file:
Minneapolis Bike Map.kmz (5.2 MB)
The key is visible in the upper-right of the map image. Basically, green lines are bike paths and blue lines are bike lanes. The opacity can be adjusted by right-clicking on the overlay in My Places and selecting “Get info...”.
Enjoy!
4 comments:
Nice work, i couldnt get it to work but the picture looks great
Very cool! Thank you. It worked for me just fine with the latest version of Google Earth (4.3.7284.3916 (beta)) on Mac 10.4.11
eew it's blurry!
your FACE is blurry!
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