The gSpatial Toolbar is supposedly another free option for converting shapefiles to KML format. I say supposedly because I’ve been unable to get it to work – I keep getting an ODBC driver manager error every time I try to do a conversion. I suspect you need to have Microsoft Office installed for this to work correctly; I’ve had the same error message pop up on three different computers, none with MS Office installed. But it certainly works on some computers, so you may have better luck – if so, let me know. It also requires a free registration code, which was a pain to get.
From what little I was able to see, the free version has limitations – no attribute-based KML features, and no ability to select a sub-region. Since I couldn’t get it to work, I can’t fully compare the gSpatial Toolbar to another free converter like shp2kml, but the latter definitely does work, and work well.
ht to Tim Beerman, author of the excellent (albeit not free) shapefile to KML converter, Shape2Earth.
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