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Google Earth Pro importing addresses

February 11, 2015

Google recently made Google Earth Pro available for free. As a result, we have been having a look at some of the premium features of Google Earth Pro. So far we have looked at the movie maker, Viewshed and map making tools. Today we are looking at how to bulk import addresses into Google Earth Pro.

The bulk address import feature in Google Earth Pro allows you to import a list of addresses from a csv file and it will then geocode the addresses (look up the latitude and longitude) and create appropriate Placemarks in Google Earth Pro.

The relevant Google Earth Pro help page explains the import process. The help page incorrectly states that it only works in seven specified countries. We tried it with an address in Zambia and it geolocated it correctly. This is however dependent on Google Maps having the correct address information so don’t expect it to work flawlessly. You can also import extra columns that are added to the placemarks’ popup window, and can also be used to set various properties such as the name of the placemark, the icon and the altitude. The import mechanism also offers the option to use latitude and longitude in your import data rather than addresses.

We see this feature being quite useful for businesses with customer or supplier databases.

About Timothy Whitehead

Timothy has been using Google Earth since 2004 when it was still called Keyhole before it was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and has been a huge fan ever since. He is a programmer working for Red Wing Aerobatx and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  1. James Isenhour says

    February 11, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    I have been receiving an email from Earth 2015 via mk2.netatlantic.com requesting that I download an update. Since the address is not from gearth have keep deleting the download. Is this download real or is it an attempt to introduce a malware to my computer?

    could someone let me know.

    • Timothy Whitehead says

      February 12, 2015 at 1:15 am

      It is not real. Never open attachments from people you do not know.

      • Premia Hammarbi (@hammarbi) says

        September 29, 2016 at 2:57 pm

        Tim,

        Hi I was wondering if you can email me about Geo-coding. Do you hsve paypal?
        premia@cashinmyhouse.net

  2. Mat says

    September 19, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    Importing addresses into google earth is great. Now the trick is how to print this at scale for a large map, probably consisting of multiple pages. Any idea how to accomplish this?



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