Rudimentary Legends

In yesterday’s experiment with choropleth maps in Google Earth, I acknowledged the lack of classification legend. I used the Layer to KML conversion tool in that example, but today I tried the Map to KML tool. It includes certain map layout objects like legends.

Rudimentary legend generated by Map to KML conversion tool.

I don’t care for the way it looks, and it certainly needs clearer labels, but it’s a legend. The legend won’t appear in Google Earth if it was converted to graphics in ArcMap, so keep in mind that Map to KML will only preserve some elements.

Posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009. Tags: geography.