EducationSoftwareStrategy.com
StrategyCommunity

Knowledge Base

Product

Community

Knowledge Base

TopicsBrowse ArticlesDeveloper Zone

Product

Download SoftwareProduct DocumentationSecurity Hub

Education

Tutorial VideosSolution GalleryEducation courses

Community

GuidelinesGrandmastersEvents
x_social-icon_white.svglinkedin_social-icon_white.svg
Strategy logoCommunity

© Strategy Inc. All Rights Reserved.

LegalTerms of UsePrivacy Policy
  1. Home
  2. Topics

KB440533: How to merge different shapes into one shape file (.kml) in order to be displayed in MicroStrategy Web


Dan Zhao

Senior Advanced Support Engineer • Strategy


How to merge different shapes into one shape file (.kml) in order to be displayed in MicroStrategy Web

Sometime user may have a couple of KML files with different countries, or regions and wish to combine them in one.
This article introduced how to user a 3rd party software available for free download to achieve this requirement.
 
The tool KML Merge for Google Earth is available for free download at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kml-support-getting-started/gd9cpJ7XuBY
 
Below is an example showing with this tool you can easily go from map of Germany and Austria:

ka044000000kRFIAA2_0EM44000000A72r.png
ka044000000kRFIAA2_0EM44000000A72w.jpeg

 
To a unified map of Austria and Germany:
 

ka044000000kRFIAA2_0EM44000000A731.png

Steps:
1. Download “KML Merge for Google Earth” tool from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kml-support-getting-started/gd9cpJ7XuBY
2. Open it, click Add button to add the two+ KML files you want to merge
3. Choose format as "KML File" and click "Start Merge".
 

ka044000000kRFIAA2_0EM44000000A736.png

 
Besides, with use of Google Earth user can also easily modify maps, by deleting regions, to create for example map of Austria and boundary regions of Germany.
 

ka044000000kRFIAA2_0EM44000000A73B.png

 
This can be done by simply deleting the regions from the KML file in Google Earth:
 

ka044000000kRFIAA2_0EM44000000A73G.jpeg

 
 


Comment

0 comments

Details

Example

Published:

April 2, 2018

Last Updated:

November 8, 2018