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As I mentioned in an earlier post, you can automatically assign a particular view to a placemark. But you can also set this manually when you create or edit a placemark.
In the New or Edit Placemark dialog box, click the View tab and change any of the following:
Latitude and Longitude - Coordinates for [...]

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If you are a Google Earth Pro user, you can quickly obtain the approximate address for many locations. In the geeky GIS world, we call this “reverse geocoding”. This means that you visually pick location and Google Earth Pro provides you its best guess for an address for this place.
Give it a try. [...]

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In this video, Googler Mano Marks demonstrates techniques for using view based refresh (VBR), and other dynamic querying techniques in KML.

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Occasional users of Google Earth may not be aware that content available in the Layers panel is frequently changed. Entirely new layers are often added and existing content is expanded and updated. It is a great idea to explore the Layers panel to see what is new.
As someone on the Google Earth team, [...]

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One of my favorite uses of Google Earth is to plan and scope out upcoming backcountry trips. Currently, I am plotting a overnight camping trip on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) near Mount Shasta in California. There are a number of ways to do this:
Navigate to the area - Tilt and check out [...]

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Over the weekend, a friend and occasional user of Google Earth asked me about how he could use the software with his real estate business. There are many options, ranging from the simple to the elaborate:
Create placemarks of properties - Once you create and share placemarks, clients can virtually visit listings, read your [...]

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You can create lines that appear between a placemark and the ground. Of course, this line only appears if the placemark is elevated above the Earth.
To do this, first create a placemark. In the New Placemark dialog box, enter an altitude value above zero or use the slider and check Extend to ground.
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As I plan my summer vacation, I’ve begun to wonder where my flights might put me as I fly to my destinations. Will I fly over the Grand Canyon? Yosemite? Nebraska? Assuming that my flights proceed in a more a less direct line, I could make a good guess using Google Earth.
Using the [...]

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The “Quick and Dirty KML Creation” presentation is now available on YouTube. Check it out.

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Its been a month of March madness for VE imagery crew- The 40+ TB publish of Virtual Earth Maps brings Birds Eye coverage to a lot of new regions, some nice High res ortho imagery, and a couple of hidden surprises that will be turned on in a couple of weeks. The state [...]

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Marriott is rolling out touch screen kiosks in their Courtyard hotels in the coming months. The interactive vertical mount screens feature local weather, travel information, maps, directions, and Business Listing information. Check out this video on their site to see one in use. Chris has some more details and screenshots on his blog.

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Via PlanetGeo I came upon a couple of early stage demos today worth a moment of your time if you’re a developer interested in some near future technologies that will have big impact on the geospatial industry.
First is from Dave Bouwman whose blog on .NET GIS development has been at the top of [...]

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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]

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