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swpmre Tourist Reged: 07/19/05 Posts: 423 Loc: London, UK Re: Horribly cluttered BBS layer       08/19/05 06:58 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Even though I am fairly new here, this is fast becoming a pet hate (project?) of mine. The horrible clutter on the BBS layer is fast making the BBS layer unusable - I happily decided to visit New York in GE just after the last update was made, only to be shocked to see a swamp of blue i's. What I don't understand, is why we, as GE's user base, don't do two things in addition to posting to new members when duplicate placemarks are added. Firstly, can't we get Google Earth to remove some duplicate placemarks from the database. I realise this would require some work, but it's frankly ridiculous that the Statue of Liberty, the Millenium Dome and the Cutty Sark have as many marks as they do. (The Millenium Dome itself is ridiculous, but that's another story). To help with this, we could get people to volunteer to clean up bits of the map - I would gladly volunteer to clean-up some of the London placemarks. Secondly, can we not ask duplicate posters to edit and remove their placemark from their post, otherwise it will get incorporated into the next Database update. If the user doesn't do this, can we not get the moderators to do it. Finally, what should we do if there is an error posted. The new thread about the Falklands war, clearly has a wrong placemark. There is NO way it should be incorporated into any future GE database update. This placemark should be removed. It is a simple example, but I think could serve to solve future problems as well as making the whole thing easier and friendly to use. Sorry to bang on about this, but it's fast becoming an obsession for me. Mind you, it beats work. -------------------- http://resolutereader.blogspot.com www.socialistworker.co.uk Post Extras

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