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December 11, 2006
Historical Maps - Now Viewable in Other Language Versions of Google Earth
The popular Rumsey historical maps, which were released in early November, are now available in the other localized versions of Google Earth for French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese. Initially, these maps were only available in the English versions of GE. The Rumsey historical maps, when turned on, overlay their approximate location on Earth. You must be using Google Earth 4 (download here) or you will not see this layer. Go to the "Featured Content Layer" and open the folder. Look for the "Rumsey Historical Maps" and open that folder as well. Turn on the map that interests you. The "Map Finder" option shows the locations of the different maps. You can then turn on each map and they will be overlayed in GE. The maps are "regionated", which means they will load more detail as you get closer (the map images were scanned at a very high resolution). See Rumsey's Google blog entry about the maps.
Posted by FrankTaylor at December 11, 2006 04:01 AM
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Posted by: Marek at December 17, 2006 03:59 AM
In the German Version you can find the historical Maps under "Alle Ebenen", "Empfehlungen", "David Rumsey."
Posted by: Bea at January 14, 2007 05:08 AM
sorry but I can't find an "featured content layer". Where is it? In the menu I only can add Image-overlay.
I've got the italian version.
Posted by: hello at August 8, 2007 05:05 AM
I can not turn off the Rumsey Historical Map = United States 1833. Is there an optional means of turning off the maps, other than clicking on the circle to the left of the file tab?
Posted by: Kevin Wright at March 25, 2008 10:52 AM
I found "Turn Maps Off" at the top of the list. That turned off the United States 1833 Rumsey Historical Map.
Posted by: Kevin Wright at March 25, 2008 10:55 AM
I don't have the "Rumsey Historical Map" layers in the layers table of content. How to add the rumsey layers or where to download it? My google earth version is 4.2
Posted by: Elisha at April 10, 2008 03:31 AM
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Hello,
sorry but I canŽt find an "featured content layer". Where is it? In the menu I only can add Image-overlay.
IŽve got the german version, so it maybe a translation problem, but if you describe me how to find it IŽll be happy.