Anyone in the Portland area notice that the property lines that used to load in Google Earth, have been not coming up? I also noticed that the City updated portlandmaps.com I suspect that they are related... Back a few years they had a KML file of the benchmarks that the City of Portland maintained. They axed that and now you have to go to their website to get them.... I suspect they did the same with the assessor parcel lines that came up on google earth a few weeks ago.
IIRC, Google Earth dropped the parcel layer recently. ArcGIS Earth doesn't have a similar layer yet, although it's been requested.
Yes, Google Earth has dropped their parcel layer for whatever reason. I would imagine it might have to do with removing the paid subscription to Google Earth Pro. ArcGIS is what most people are looking at for a solution, but it isn't fully implemented yet.
Thank you both for that info. The City of Portland, had a downloadable file (KML or KMZ) that was just for our local area. I doubt (but could be wrong) that we are talking about the same thing.
Anyone local to Portland also experiencing this issue?
No, you are talking the same thing. The KMZ files for land lines have been removed nation wide.
I wonder, though. Since the Google Earth application does allow the use of third party .kmz files, it seems that one could use their own .kmz for their local data. Although, you'd have to find or create a .kmz file.
The local area Appraisal District created .kmz files work fine on GE.
skwyd, post: 358695, member: 6874 wrote: I wonder, though. Since the Google Earth application does allow the use of third party .kmz files, it seems that one could use their own .kmz for their local data. Although, you'd have to find or create a .kmz file.
That depends on the kmz. The reason the parcel lines we removed was because of the demise of the google maps API.
skwyd, post: 358695, member: 6874 wrote: I wonder, though. Since the Google Earth application does allow the use of third party .kmz files, it seems that one could use their own .kmz for their local data. Although, you'd have to find or create a .kmz file.
Once GE shut down the layer, I was asked to create a KMZ for my town, so I made it and I have distributed it to many in Town including Zoning Board of Appeals, Conservation Commission, Town Staff and a bunch of others. I threw a download on my website and anyone can download it. I am planning to add some others in the near future.
I went a step further by putting everything on several layers: Roads, Boundaries, Water and Municipal. I added a layer with my company name with two pieces of text: the requisite reference to the MassGIS data and some information about my company. www.ese-llc.com/google
(Yes lame, I only have one to download, but more are coming).
I am unsure of which program I use to export the KMZ; it is either CAD or Carlson. File->Export->Google Earth File