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SloeJen Tourist Reged: 08/18/05 Posts: 19 Loc: San Diego, California Re: Horribly cluttered BBS layer       08/20/05 12:54 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   I've been using Google Earth for a while but joined the BBS only a few weeks ago. It is the biggest time sink since Tetris, but so much more educational! Duplicate placemarks are a big problem. I like the idea of telling new posters of duplicate placemarks they have to delete them, but that implies someone's spending all their time looking for these things. Maybe there's an automated way to find things in close proximity with duplicate words in the titles... Another problem is what I'll call "transitory" placemarks. Airplanes, fires, etc. that may have been in the picture once, but are gone now due to new imagery replacing the old. Maybe when new data is added, that triggers a review of placemarks posted in that area and things like "airplane," "approach" are parsed out for retiring. Along similar lines, sometimes you want to post a placemark relevant to a topic discussion in the BBS, but it's not really worth permanently cluttering up the layer for. How about if there is a two-tier placemark system whereby it's an extra click on some box in the BBS posting tool to "publish" the placemark in the BBS layer over and above contributing it to the discussion thread? Alternatively, when posting a placemark, the user could be prompted to provide an "expiry" date for that placemark, whereby they could be notified that it would expire unless they wanted to renew it. Make the user do more of the work of pre-coding these things and then it's less work to deal with them later. Jen Post Extras

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