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 Overlays If you are a Google Earth user and record wildlife in Bedfordshire then you may want to download the following file created at the BRMC for use in Google Earth that contains: The Bedfordshire Boundary
A Grid of 1km squares
A Grid of 10km squares
Labels for the 1km squares
Labels for the 10km squares
These overlay the aerial photographs of Bedfordshire making recording a breeze! (Tetrad grids have not been provided as recording at 1km resolution is encouraged) NEW: Vice-County 30 boundary is now available too! See below. Please be aware that the Bedfordshire Boundary has been created using Ordnance Survey maps under Bedfordshire County Council licence and we are required to display the following:© Crown copyright. All rights reserved (licence 100017358) (2007) The file (Beds Mapping.kml) has been zipped to avoid security issues with the download and pressure on the website.
1. Download and save the zip file (.zip, 267KBytes) by right-clicking HERE and doing "Save Target As...".
(If you can't cope with zip files then you can try downloading the unzipped version HERE (.kml, 2.1MBytes) - Right-mouse-click over the link and then do "Save Target As..." - but you will have to figure-out yourself how to allow your browser to download it if it complains about security issues. Be sure to save it with the file suffix as ".kml". Internet Explorer may want to change the suffix to be ".xml" for some reason! Once it is downloaded and saved, continue as below...). Start Google Earth and load file "Beds Mapping.kml" by doing File->Open... and selecting it from wherever you saved it.
If you click on the "+" next to that layer name you can open up the hierarchy to see the five layers. Each layer can be individually turned on/off by ticking the box next to it. You'll probably want to get rid of the yellow pushpin symbols on the label layers. This is easy to do: 1. Left-Click (left mouse button) on a label layer name in the sidebar to highlight it. 2. From the top menu select Edit->Properties 3. Left-click the Style,Color tab 4. Left-click the Share Style button 5. Left-click on the yellow pushpin symbol to the right of the name field 6. Left-click on the "No Icon" button at the bottom, and then Left-click on OK 7. Left-click OK on the final window. Repeat for the other label layer if you wish. You can also change the colours and widths of the grids and boundary layers in much the same way. Repeat steps 1-3 then fiddle with the line colours and widths and fill effects to get the appearance that you wish. You can even change the appearance of specific grid squares by opening up the grid hierarchies and highlighting specific squares and editting as above. Once you are happy with the appearance you can save everything for future reuse by selecting (left-click) the Beds Mapping layer and doing File->Save->Save to My Places. The next time you use Google Earth the layers will be there just as you left them. The overlays have been tested on Google Earth version "4.0.2693 (beta)". If you are having problems when using an earlier version, please try upgrading first before reporting any problems. When "No Icon" has been selected for the label layers some labels may appear and disappear with different zoom amounts and panning. This appears to be a Google Earth issue rather than a problem with the overlays. Special permission was sought and obtained from the NBN Trust to make vice-county 30 boundary available for Google Earth too. This has been granted for individual use and non-commercial purposes ONLY. We are also required to say that digital VC boundaries were developed under contract and funded by Defra, Scottish Natural Heritage and the NBN Trust, and to display the following.
Providing that you understand and agree to the above the VC30 boundary can be downloaded HERE (.kml, 292KBytes). (Be sure to save it with the file suffix as ".kml". Internet Explorer may want to change the suffix to be ".xml" for some reason!) Thank you to the NBN Trust for granting us permission to make the boundary available in this manner.
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