Comments on: Exporting Shapefiles To Google Earth IV - Shape2Earth http://freegeographytools.com/2007/exporting-shapefiles-to-google-earth-iv-shape2earth Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: peter http://freegeographytools.com/2007/exporting-shapefiles-to-google-earth-iv-shape2earth#comment-6488 peter Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:13:37 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=54#comment-6488 Hi. Thanks Frank for mentioning Shape2Earth. I wanted to just make a couple of comments here. One, I want to thank the developer of Shape2Earth for making this plug-in. Also, its not clear in the quick news piece, but Shape2Earth is a plug-in for MapWindow, which is a free open source GIS that only runs on Windows. However, it does run very well with Parallels on an Inel Mac and it is this environment which I mostly use it. So for basically $30 you get plug-in that otherwise would require spending over a grand for ESRI's ArcGIS plus another $99 at least for Arc2Earth. While Arc2Earth has more features, Shape2Earth is very good and the developer seems very committed to making it even better. So, even if you are a Mac user, this tool has its place if you use Boot Camp or Parallels on an Intel Mac. qGIS is a nice open source GIS on the Mac, but I have yet to see any developers making a similar module as Shape2Earth for KML creation from shapefiles. Thanks, Hi. Thanks Frank for mentioning Shape2Earth. I wanted to just make a couple of comments here. One, I want to thank the developer of Shape2Earth for making this plug-in. Also, its not clear in the quick news piece, but Shape2Earth is a plug-in for MapWindow, which is a free open source GIS that only runs on Windows. However, it does run very well with Parallels on an Inel Mac and it is this environment which I mostly use it. So for basically $30 you get plug-in that otherwise would require spending over a grand for ESRI’s ArcGIS plus another $99 at least for Arc2Earth. While Arc2Earth has more features, Shape2Earth is very good and the developer seems very committed to making it even better. So, even if you are a Mac user, this tool has its place if you use Boot Camp or Parallels on an Intel Mac. qGIS is a nice open source GIS on the Mac, but I have yet to see any developers making a similar module as Shape2Earth for KML creation from shapefiles.

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