[Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix?

[Thomas J Trombone]

Hi Doug,

There's apparently a third-party plug-in that provides county boundaries. See this post for more info:

https://support.google.com/earth/thread/124369583/county-boundaries-and-other-information-missing-from-new-borders-and-labels-layer?hl=en&msgid=133045875

and here's the page for the plug-in: https://www.earthpoint.us/Counties.aspx

I've barely tried using it myself, so I can't vouch for its utility.

Best,
Tom

Thomas J. Trombone | Data Manager | Department of Ornithology
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Hi, all.

As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently
- Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US.

State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display.

I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this?

Thanks in advance,

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Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
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