Most likely you know
how
to export an ArcMap
layer in kml or kmz
to display them in Google Earth.
But
, did you know it is
possible to export directly an
entire map ?
Here’s how.
The tool is available in the toolbox and requires only mxd input file and the location and name you want for the kmz file.
Therefore you can use it as such on any ArcMap project . Nevertheless, it is worth “cleaning” a little your document.
You have to pay attention to a couple of things:
The first: since you are going to overlap your document layers on Google Earth it is not useful to display the layers that can be worth for your own sake to replace it by the Google Earth view. Let’s consider the layer “Earth” as an example. If you keep it activated in your document, it will overlap ( and hide ) the image of Earth from Google Earth. Moreover, this increases the kmz file size and therefore the loading time in Google Earth.
The second: attribute tables are converted to kmz format, so as to display the attributes when you click on an entity in Google Earth. Only let the attributes of your interest be displayed, as risk of increasing the size of the kmz file and slow down the loading .
In the following link, you can find a video with the procedure:
