Maps: Detailed map of the Beijing area Great Wall of China version 2

[Bryan]

The Great Wall Forum is pleased to announce the release of version 2 of our detailed map of the Great Wall of China in the Beijing area. This map is packaged as a kmz file for use with Google Earth.

The map is free, but you must comply with the license agreement to use it. Basically, the agreement contains these rules:

• The map is only for personal, non-commercial use.
• You may not copy, redistribute, or modify the map.
• You are strongly urged to help protect and preserve the Great Wall.

The map is a community project. Users are encouraged to contribute additions, corrections, and suggestions.

The map contains the following features:

• Major Great Wall location markers
• Detailed Great Wall paths
• Driving routes from downtown Beijing
• Hiking/walking trails

Only forum members can download the map. Guests must register before downloading the attached map.

Please note that this map only covers the Beijing area. You should download the complete map from this forum if you are interested in other areas.

Many thanks to andarchen for his help with several of the Great Wall paths in this map.

The Beijing Great Wall map is a work in progress. The current release is dated 2009/02/25. Please check back regularly for updates as we continually improve the map.

Important note: This thread has been replaced by Detailed map of the Beijing area Great Wall of China version 3.

[FreddyMusic]

Thanks for great wall forum to share the map.

One question,
If I want to export this data ( Placemark ) on Google Earth. How to get it?
I know it's manually add on, It can be maually read and take out.
However, google earth should be smart software, somewhere can export or read the data all together.

Another question to great wall map,
The red line is Ming dynasty wall, what is building year for the yellow line ? Han dynasty?

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by FreddyMusic

Thanks for great wall forum to share the map.

One question,
If I want to export this data ( Placemark ) on Google Earth. How to get it?
I know it's manually add on, It can be maually read and take out.
However, google earth should be smart software, somewhere can export or read the data all together.

From Google Earth, save the data you are interested in as a KML file. A KML file is plain XML format which can be loaded into many programs. If you need to, you can use third-party tools like GPSBabel to convert the KML file to a GPX file, for instance.

Originally Posted by FreddyMusic

Another question to great wall map,
The red line is Ming dynasty wall, what is building year for the yellow line ? Han dynasty?

The red lines are Great Wall of any dynasty, not necessarily Ming. The yellow lines are walking trails.

[FreddyMusic]

Thanks for the tips. However, I am not successful to convert the GPS data yet.

Is that possible to have the latest GPS list in plain txt format or Microsoft excel xls format?

Eg. Hushan 40°13'18.00"N 124°30'55.00"E

[Yemenmike]

Hi Freddy.

Try the GPSBabel software to convert the *.kml files either to plain *.txt or comma delimited format. All you then have to do is import into excel and use the text to columns command to separate the individual elements of the data.
But, I would suggest that you split the file into "manageable parts" first, as it is a big file.

Cheers

Michael

[Bryan]

Also, if you try renaming the .kml file to .xml, it might open in Excel.

[FreddyMusic]

Catch the data with GPSBabel.
Thanks to admin and mike.