Ever since the release of Google Earth, spinning globe applications are a useful and popular method of geographical exploration. QGIS has an experimental plugin called QGIS Globe that is similar to Google Earth; however, it is extremely unstable. In this recipe, we'll display a layer in Google Earth.
You will need to use the QGIS plugin manager to install the mmqgis
plugin.
Make sure you have Google Earth installed from https://www.google.com/earth/.
You will also need the following dataset from a previous recipe. It is a zipped directory called ufo
, which you should uncompress to your qgis_data
directory:
https://github.com/GeospatialPython/Learn/raw/master/ufo.zip