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Google Earth KMZ Files
This site provides a number Google Earth KMZ files to download and use in Google Earth. (Prefer Earth Version 5 or later). They demonstrate various options for presentation of research arising from this Project.
(Photograph to the Left shows delegates from the May 2007 International Symposium at the Temple of the River God in Lüeyang. The Temple was damaged by the Wenchuan Earthquake and is being repaired.)
(Click on one of the Titles below or click on the photograph to access a zip file of the Google Earth KMZ file) |
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This KMZ Waypoint File provides a “View” of the geographic region where the Shu Roads and Plank Roads are found.
(You can download this Waypoint and use it in Google Earth to rotate and pan to the region of interest. The file also conveniently sets the TimeSpan in Earth 5.)
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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KMZ file of waypoints, tracks and routes in “GPS” structure. Records some of the major Shu roads as a trial for a time based information system. The places and paths can be visited and all have connections with Shu and Plank Roads. Place names are Chinese but Pinyin names are in the information box. Significantly updated version in progress.
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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A set of waypoints, earthquake centres and some tracks and routes used in Reports that are available at this site. It illustrates the Wenchuan earthquake and its impact in the region around the Shu roads. Includes after shocks up to August 5, 2008 in Qingchuan and Ningqiang counties.
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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GPS Track and Photographs from Zibai Mountain
Photograph shows a welcome set of steps on the way up Zibai (Purple Cedar) Mountain. The mountain is near the Zhang Liang Temple and reaches to about 2500m. The GPS Track is being used to compare SRTM, GPS and Russian Topographic maps. The photographs are located on this web site and can be viewed here at their (x,y) locations using Google Earth. (See May 2008 Report).
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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The Old Post Road from Fengxiang to Hanzhong
Frank Moore is an Australian who lived in Hanzhong as a child. His parents were missionaries who walked in to Hanzhong along this road in the 1930’s. This KMZ file of the route was extracted with Pinyin names to provide a map and places of interest along the way they took.
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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A Walk in the NW Ag&F Tech University Campus and to Work in Yangling
Yangling in Shaanxi Province, PR China is an Agricultural High Technology area. It has a number of colleges; research Institutes and the Northwest Agricultural & Forestry Technology University. This KMZ file illustrates the use of tracks, waypoints, information, web references and photographs in a GE presentation. The photographs are on the web.
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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Tracks, waypoints and photographs from a visit to Australia
Feng Suiping outside the Art Gallery of NSW. Between September 4 and September 18 2008, Feng Suiping, Lu Hanjun (Hanzhong Museum) and Li Rui and Xin Juxiang (Yangling) visited Australia. The activities of the journey can be followed using the KMZ file to be found here.
(Recommend you “right click” on hyperlink and use “Save Target as…” to download. See discussion below.) |
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The Google Earth Files are provided as KMZ files, or compressed KML files. They have also been wrapped as “zip” files in order to prevent your computer trying to open them immediately into Google Earth across the web link or mistaking the kmz files for zip files. If you “click” on the highlighted titles you will normally be asked if you wish to save the file or open it. It is best to choose to save to your disk. There have been cases where the tool has opened the zip folder. In that case the KMZ file can be dragged to the desk top using Explorer. Once on your computer, the KMZ file should be extracted from the zip file. If you do not have Google Earth please go to http://earth.google.com/ and download the latest version. The KMZ files can be opened in Google Earth or dragged and dropped into an open Google Earth application. It is convenient on Windows systems to associate the extents “KML” and “KMZ” with Google Earth in which case a “double click” on a KMZ or a KML file will open it in Google Earth for you. NOTE: The Google Earth “Time slider Bar” has, in the past, created problems with collections of GPS Tracks which were often invisible when the file was opened. The versions on this page have been updated to take advantage of improvements in Google Earth 5.0 and later versions. You should use the latest. If there are problems please contact dlbjupp@ozemail.com.au. |