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Content Types: GIS Data
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If your public sector organization is like many around the world, you’ve collected geospatial data used for planning, developing and navigating your community. Now your government, community group, or educational institution can magnify the visibility and reach of this investment in GIS by sharing it with the public through Google Maps, Google Earth, and other Google services.
Hundreds of millions of Internet users turn to Google to get aerial and curbside views of their community, consider a real-estate investment, plan a travel itinerary, or look at a cityscape from a new perspective. Make sure they get a complete and rich view of your community by sharing 3D building models, public transportation schedules, aerial imagery and various types of map or vector data, including boundaries, place names and parcels.
Google also offers tools, including KML, the Google Maps API, and My Maps, for presenting a custom view of your community. Whether population or pollution levels, the location of public schools or health indicators, you can easily produce and share a custom map.
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If your organization has developed a 3D model representing the buildings in your community, or if you've collected the geospatial data necessary for producing a 3D model, you can produce and share 3D models through Google Earth. Learn how others have used 3D models as a tool for planning and economic development or to foster tourism and simplify navigation. Check out Google's Cities in 3D Program.
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Whether for a Google Maps for Mobile user trying to navigate to a tourist attraction in your community or a faraway Google Earth user considering business site locations in your commercial district, you can offer Google users a sharper aerial view of your community's landscapes and built environment by providing high-resolution aerial imagery and terrain data.
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Ensure that Google Maps, Google Earth and other Google services are based on an accurate representation of your jurisdiction's boundaries and roads, placenames and address points as well as specific map elements like trails and parcels. Tell us about the basemap data you would like to share at gisdata@google.com.
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Provide the name and descriptive information about useful or interesting points of interest--such as business listings, historic sites, landmarks, parks, schools, water bodies and more--to enrich the representation of your community on Google's services. Learn how to provide Google Aggregated Business Information. Or, if you have POI data to provide along with other basemap data, tell us what you would like to share at gisdata@google.com.
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Use KML to publish geographic data. KML enables you to display points, lines, images, polygons and models in both Google Maps and Google Earth. Your KML files can be shared on your website either as individual, downloadable files or visualized using the Earth API.
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Publish your interesting KML files in the Google Earth KML Gallery on earth.google.com. The gallery contains examples of KMLs created by government agencies, community groups and users like you.
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Empower your website visitors to browse location-based information using Google Maps. Adding the power Google Maps to your website and combining it with your data is easy using the Google Maps API.
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MyMaps provides public sector organizations an easy way to quickly display time-sensitive geographic information to the public. And members of your community can easily interact with and visualize this information in the familiar Google Maps interface.
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