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Historical Maps – Now Viewable in Other Language Versions of Google Earth

December 11, 2006

Rumsey Historical Maps in Google EarthThe 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.

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  1. Marek says

    December 17, 2006 at 3:59 am

    Hello,
    sorry but I can

  2. Bea says

    January 14, 2007 at 5:08 am

    In the German Version you can find the historical Maps under “Alle Ebenen”, “Empfehlungen”, “David Rumsey.”

  3. hello says

    August 8, 2007 at 5:05 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.

  4. Kevin Wright says

    March 25, 2008 at 10:52 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?

  5. Kevin Wright says

    March 25, 2008 at 10:55 am

    I found “Turn Maps Off” at the top of the list. That turned off the United States 1833 Rumsey Historical Map.

  6. Elisha says

    April 10, 2008 at 3:31 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



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