Draw Simple Shapes in Google Earth using Python

Read how you can draw simple shapes such as squares and circles in Google earth using KML & Python.

Google Earth is a magnificent tool useful for both GIS amateurs as well as for professionals.

In this post we'll cover how we can generate basic shapes such as squares and circles for Google Earth using python & KML.

KML:

KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is Google Earths XML based file format for describing geographic data. A KML document can contain different kinds of "features" such as:

  • Placemarks
  • Paths
  • Polygons

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