Creating a Simple Borehole Location Map in Google Earth

Map| Borehole Locations to Google Earth (Simple)

Use this tool to display your borehole locations with symbols in Google Earth. The program will use the Google Earth Icon symbol currently displayed in the Location tab for each hole.  You can also include simple borehole labels.

Translation of your borehole coordinates to longitude/latitude will occur automatically. Google Earth is not included with RockWorks and is installed separately.

See also: Creating a Borehole Location Map in Google Earth (Advanced) for maps with more labeling options.

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Instructions

Menu Options

• Include Labels: Insert a check here to include borehole ID labels in the output map.  They will be hard-wired to white and a fixed size. 

Step-by-Step Summary

1. Access the Borehole Manager program tab. 
2. Enter/import your data into the Borehole Manager database. (More.)
3. Select the Map | Borehole Locations to Google Earth (Simple) menu option. 
4. Enter the menu items as described above.
5. Click Process to create the map. 

The program will create a map of the well locations, reading the location information and symbol style from the Location tabs. Requested borehole ID labels will be pulled from the Location table. It will create a KMZ (zip) file containing the KML file. The Google Earth KML and KMZ file names will be assigned automatically.

6. If RockWorks displays the KMZ name in a popup window for your reference, you can confirm:
   • Automatically load file into Google Earth: Be sure this is checked if you want to display the output at this time.
   • Show this message every time a KMZ File is Created: If checked, this window will be displayed each time a Google Earth output is created. Uncheck this if you prefer not to see this window in the future.
     (Both of these settings are also available via the Preferences menu.)
     
     
   • Click OK to continue or Cancel to cancel the operation.

The resulting map will be displayed in Google Earth, if requested.

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