Hey there everyone,

This is a good topic to have out in discussion -- I'm a new member and have made some replies to discussions, but haven't posted any placemarks. Part of this is a concern that places are already covered in pins, flags etc to the point that you can't see the trees for their forest.

Now something that has started to become clear to me, and please correct me if I am wrong, is that these placemarks live only on our individual computers, and not on the Google Earth files as a whole. Lately I have started to weed out some, where they are duplicated. Some of them are even duplications as a result of my clicking a placemark to realize only after I get there that I have already visited.

So as I have started to do my own thinning of placemarks in my files, and sometimes directly after viewing, I have been wondering why it would be a matter that could be so irritating to some, that someone would place a mark in a post that might be a duplication, or even a well-visited spot.

As I mentioned, I am still quite new at all this, so I will be really happy to have any misunderstandings that I might have cleared up, and such clarification may benefit others as well.

All in all, I am really enjoying this program and all the discussions in so many areas of interest about places all over this wonderful planet of ours.

Thanks to you all,

warmest greetings,

Tim