Can't get historic KMZ to work...

[joewheaton]

From a user:

I have been using BRAT to determine where to begin these surveys.

I can download the Existing Dam Building Capacity KMZ for coastal NorCal but am struggling to actually open these files up in Google Earth and R (which is weird cause I can easily access the Historic Building Capacity and the Existing Dam Complex Size files). I was wondering if you had any suggestions on how to access this file, if there may have been an uploading error, or if there is someone else I could get in contact with - maybe Margret Hallerud?

Here is the link to the file I am trying to download.

I appreciate your time and energy developing BRAT and look forward to hearing from you and potentially working together in the future.

[joewheaton]

We will be putting the entire BRAT projects up on http://data.riverscapes.xyz where you can view them online map viewers and download the projects. You can use http://rave.riverscapes.xyz to view them in QGIS (for free) or ArcGIS. The KMZs are really flaky for the big regionwide outputs. There can be different numbers of vertices and attributes between the files, hence one working and the other not. The bottom line is the KMZs are really sluggish at the big scales (just too big), so I would suggest working at the finer scale of HUC 8 boundaries. I would suggest navigating into the HUC 8s you are after and downloading the smaller files from: https://usu.app.box.com/s/nngn8j4l92wtleob47wzdaoxvb9vdq52/folder/80878855665. I think TNC also has a webserver you can view these on.

Shout if that doesn't work.