Anne Denton http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~adenton
1. Motivation: http://www.ted.com/talks/will_marshall_teeny_tiny_satellites_that_photograph_the_entire_planet_every_day/?language=en
2. Open Google Earth and travel around the globe once
a. Search for Fargo, ND
b. Zoom in until you find NDSU (you have to go north a bit, and a hit west)
3. In a browser open https://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/annotate.html
a. Follow tutorial until you are done with the portion “Add Placemark”
4. Now create your own KML file
a. Use the following text
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
<Placemark>
<name>Hello,
NDSU</name>
<description>Here's
where we are!</description>
<Point>
<coordinates>
-96.803455352783,46.89363354515,0
</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>
b. Open an editor (e.g. Wordpad or Notepad)
c. Cut and past the above text into a new file
d. Save it on the desktop using filename HelloNDSU.kml
e. Use Open File in Google Earth to open it
5. You have just created your first data collection!
a. Computer science is about data and algorithms
b. KML is a special version of the more general XML
c. XML documents are like small databases
d. Try it out! Add another placemark!