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Subject: using Google Earth for map cataloging to obtain coordinates
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:08:53 -0700, Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:46:15 -0700
From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization: UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
We here would also like a way to auto-transport
coordinates into correct MARC tags. Even without that
feature, Google Earth is very handy for obtaining
coordinates, especially for islands. But ...
there are some - not many - coordinate errors that one
of us has found.
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> Subject: Anyone using Google Earth for map cataloging?
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:01:04 -0500, Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:41:23
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> From: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Anyone using Google Earth for map cataloging?
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:31:24 -0400
> From: Eileen Janas <[log in to unmask]>
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> Is anyone using Google Earth in their map cataloging process? If my MARC
> record has 034 data, and I want to see the map outline on Googe Earth,has
> anyone got an easy way of converting the MARC 034 tag into a .kml file
> so I
> can display it on Google Earth (and link back to the bib record for the
> metadata?) And secondly, if I have a map that doesn't have coordinates,
> but I can compare it to Google Earth and obtain a lat/lon for each
> vertex,
> does any one have a shortcut to creating the 034 and 255 tags without
> copying and pasting each latitude and longitude into the proper subfield?
> My error rate is very high with the copy/paste method. I looked at the
> National Geologic Map Database
> http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngmdb/ngm_catalog.ora.html
> which displays minimum bounding rectangles on Google Earth, but the data
> isn't coming from a MARC database. I appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Eileen Janas
> CIA Library
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Davidson Library
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