Hi,

Google Earth is really a blast -- and I am very happily using it to explore the world. However, when I get closer to home, data quality sometimes becomes an issue...

when zooming into Switzerland, I find the city of Zurich labelled as 'Zurigo' in the 'Populated Places' overlay. That is very nice for the italian-speaking people of Switzerland, but quite inappropriate -- given that Zurich is located firmly in the german-speaking part of Switzerland. Change this to Z�rich, or 'Zuerich' or Zurich, if you can't handle umlauts, please...

Oh, and this is in Germany obviously, but 'Cologne' is really named K�ln.

The population mark for 'Horgen' close to Zurich is in the middle of a Lake. Last time I was there, Horgen was quite dry ;-)

There are many inaccurancies concerning your geodata in Switzerland (e.g. check for the Vierwaldstaettersee) -- and very very little high-resolution content. Have you considered to apply the data that swisstopo (http://www.swisstopo.ch/en/index) has to offer? For example they have full coverage of Switzerland with high resolution Ortho Photos (http://www.swisstopo.ch/en/products/digital/ortho/swissimage) giving you 50cm or better resolution with fairly recent data. I thought I would mention that here, even though I don't know how much they charge...


Any plans to augment the data quality in middle europe? I'd love to hear about this...

/gec

I totally agree with the previous post. The coverage (& naming) for Switzerland is rather bad. Although I understand that the focus lies on the USA and "important" locations at the moment I would appreciate a more precise database (i.e. "Zurich" instead of "Zurigo").

The point with the data source from Swisstopo is really a good suggestion!

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great application, thanks a lot!

Swisstopo is a really good suggestion, but have you ever had a look at their incredible expensive selling rates?

They give nothing for free.

But - your can cheat them a bit.
Take a look at my first two layers I built.

My Home
My Workplace

They're made with GE Plus, Map Search & the GIMP.

Hello Hieronymus,
open the attached file Appenzellerland.kmz and you will find some high resolution files including one of the old town of St.Gallen and a b&w picture of the city .

Just click on the CH-9000 St.Gallen placemark and you will be almost at home :-)))

The pictures are over 30 years old, but still much better as what you will get from GE ..... I hope they will buy soon new data from swisstopo :-)))

If you need to report a data error, click the "Google Earth support page" link in my signature below.

Example: