KML is not so commonly used by mapmakers and GIS programmers.ESRI'S shapefile on the other hand is most commonly adopted in the field of GIS and therefore in this tutorial i will show how to convert between the two. It is important to convert a shapefile(shp) to KML especially when you want to put
Keyhole Markup Language(KML) is an XML based file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth and Google Maps. 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


This tutorial explains how one can download Landsat images from the United States Geological Survey(USGS) website.There are no restrictions to downloading data from the site,however a statement of the data source when citing,copying or reprinting the data or images is requested. The approximate scene






In this tutorial i am going to show a context of a large scale map;this gives a sense of where it is in relation to a smaller scale map. I am currently doing my final year project and my area of study is Nairobi County.Part of what is required in the write-up is to provide an overview map. 1.The


1.I will be using QGIS 2.8 for this tutorial and an excel file containing X and Y coordinates of crops affected by bacterial diseases in Western Kenya.The data was collected using a handheld GPS. 2.In QGIS go to Layer>Add Layer>Add delimited layer. 3.Browse the location of the excel