Visualizing data on a globe
Ever since the release of Google Earth, spinning globe applications are a useful and popular method of geographical exploration. QGIS has an experimental plugin called QGIS Globe that is similar to Google Earth; however, it is extremely unstable. In this recipe, we'll display a layer in Google Earth.
Getting ready
You will need to use the QGIS plugin manager to install the mmqgis plugin.
Make sure you have Google Earth installed from https://www.google.com/earth/.
You will also need the following dataset from a previous recipe. It is a zipped directory called ufo, which you should uncompress to your qgis_data directory:
https://github.com/GeospatialPython/Learn/raw/master/ufo.zip
How to do it...
We will load our layer and ...
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