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August 29, 2006
Google Updates Layers - New Featured Content for Google Earth - August 28th
Last night Google published and announced an update to the Google Earth Community (GEC) layers. These layers show blue "i" icons in Google Earth which show placemarks posted in the forums when turned on in the Layers pane on the lower left of GE. For those of you who posted in appropriate forums (some of the forums are not included in the layer) before August 18th, your placemarks should appear now. You may have to zoom down lower heights to see more of the placemarks. Since it's been a few months since the last update to this layer there are probably tens of thousands of new placemarks now available. Fortunately, the layer has sub-layers broken down by category (based somewhat on the forums at the GEC). This can help you eliminate unwanted placemarks.
In addition, Google has added a new layer called the "Featured Content" layer. Right now this includes the following: Turn Here, Jane Goodall's Gombe Chimpanzee Blog, and Discovery Channel's National Parks Tour (links point to earlier stories about these collections at GEB). My guess is that Google will rotate featured content from the GE Showcase web page through this new layer.
Related:
- Transportation Layer Improvements
- New Volcano Layer
- New Layer Layout
- New Search Feature in Placenames
- Ferry Routes in Road Layer
- Down Under and Kiwis Get Road Layer Update
Posted by FrankTaylor at August 29, 2006 2:18 PM
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Posted by: steve at December 2, 2007 5:00 PM
I, too, don't have a "featured content" layer. v 4.2.something
Posted by: morf at December 17, 2007 5:57 PM
Also missing featured content.
Using: 4.2.0205.5730
Posted by: mgvh at January 12, 2008 10:27 AM
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I don't have a "Featured Content" option in my Layers list. I'm using version v4.0.2722, do I have to update GE in order for featured content to appear or am I not doing something I need to do to update the layers that are available to me?
thanks.