Tuning display of pois, Tuning the display of pois – Google Earth User Guide User Manual
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for the item. For example, the Dining layer contains sub-categories of all
types of dining, from fast food to seafood. You can turn on restaurant
information for a specific type of dining (i.e., seafood only), or you can select
the top-level Dining check box to display all Dining types.
When you have a mix of items selected in a category, you can right-click
(CTRL click on the Mac) on the parent folder and select Hide Contents from
the pop-up menu to quickly hide all elements within the category.
Tuning Display of POIs
Because Google Earth can deliver hundreds of POIs to a single view, the
icons marking them can be modified to make viewing them easier. The most
common issues with POI display include:
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A POI doesn't appear over an area where one is expected
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No icons appear at all
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Icons overlap each other, making it hard to see the one being
covered
Try the following to resolve the issue:
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Zoom in closer to the region to see if the icon appears.
Remember that icons, like road data, appear at different elevations,
and not all icons appear from an extended elevation. In addition,
zooming in to a lower elevation often resolves the problem of icons
that appear to overlap when viewed from a higher elevation.
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Check the streaming meter to make sure downloading is
complete. This is located at the bottom of the 3D viewer. If you
believe you are sufficiently zoomed in and no POI appears, it may be
that data is still being streamed to your client. The Google Earth
servers are streaming imagery, terrain, and other data to your
application, so sometimes icons do not appear immediately.
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Adjust the icon size. You can change the size of icons from
medium to small or large, depending upon whether you typically view
the earth from a higher elevation or a lower elevation. Do this by
selecting Options from the Tools menu. The icon size is set in the
Labels/Icon size area. See
for more details.