Viewing shapefiles in google earth

Does anyone know of any free shapefile viewers that I can
use to create
shapefiles for viewing in Google Earth?  I am running on a
Windows
platform.


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GeoGregory3gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of any free shapefile viewers that I
can use to create
> shapefiles for viewing in Google Earth?  I am running
on a Windows
> platform.

You wouldn't really want to create a shapefile just to view
in Google
Earth, would you?  You would just create a kml file.

However if you already have a shapefile, and you want to
view it in
Google Earth, then you can convert it to a kml file.  There
are several
utilities to do this.

GPS Trackmaker is a free one, with a nice and simple
interface, and a
batch conversion mechanism.

http://www.gpstm.com/

Of course, if you just want to view a shapefile, there are
several free
products that will do this also..  Like arcexplorer

h
ttp://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html

Ian.


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