In this tutorial i will be digitizing roads in Nairobi's BuruBuru estate where i live and then export the data to KML.The current roads shapefile that i have for the area is not up to date and this is one of the methods to get up-to-date data.
The software used is the Google Earth Pro.You can download it for free here if you don't have it installed.
1.Launch the Google Earth Pro and zoom in to your area of interest.I want to digitize roads so i will click on 'Add path' on the taskbar.Click on 'Add polygon' if your feature is a polygon or 'Add placemark' for point data.
2.Enter the name for the layer and before clicking on 'OK' start digitizing.
3.Finally right click on the layer you have created on the side panel and save it as either KML or KMZ.KMZ is a compressed version of KML.It stands for Keyhole Markup language Zipped.
You can also check on my tutorial 'How to convert KML to Shapefile and viceversa in QGIS'.
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Hi Benard
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