Looks like something went wrong in San Antonio - a whole bunch of the locations seem to be in a nice straight line, and some of the people seem to have lived in the middle of parks and shopping centers. Something also seems to be particularly wrong with Albert at about 29,30,50N, 98,29,36W (deg,min,sec). His face is all contorted as if it has been photoshopped.

Hi, Brian.

Part of the problem is that the reference sources do not give full addresses - sometimes they will simply say "Private John Jones, from Idaho" Where this has happened, Sean (Purblind-Horus) uses the state capital as John's "hometown"

If there are a significant number from one state, then the placemarks would all be on top of one another in the centre of the state capital, and people would not be able to easily see or open individual placemarks.

To overcome this, John has simply incremented the latitude of such clustered placemarks, so that each succeeding placemark is slightly to the north of its predecessor. Where there are a number, this results in a N-S line of placemarks. It isn't an ideal solution, but better than none.

The real solution, of course, is for people who have personal knowledge to contact Sean with the relevant information - he's keen to improve the quality of information in his post, and he has asked for volunteers to assist him in his ongoing research.

Cheers

Frank

I don't believe Google Earth is a place that should be used for advancing one's political agenda. I sympathize with your cause but I don't think I should have to be confronted with your placemarks everytime I run this program. I know that I can turn off the "Military" layer, but aside from your placemarks there are actually interesting things in that layer.

Because this a public forum, you have to respect other users' rights. I don't believe the original purpose of this thread was to advance someone's political agenda.

ok, a lot of time has been spent on this. yes it may be a worthy cause.
BUT

for google earth, shouldn't these have been in an optional download. would have made more sense. looking at london the view is sort of obscured by these pins. i don't mean it in a disrespectful slur on the casualties. which brings me to a bigger point, bigger than google earth. they were volunteers. you sign up for any volunteer army, some politician puts a gun in your hand and says shoot somebody for me.

elRosewood. You have a Private message, I strongly suggest you READ IT !

I just want to add my encouragement and support to this endevour. Keep going Sean, Frank and co. - what a fitting memorial for the digital era. I've been really moved by some of the comments from family and colleagues of those lost in active service.

Pete

Once again, I add words of encouragement for the original author. This thread, along with the other casualty one, are the 2 most important threads on the board.

No one here is trying to push a political agenda, except probaly the ones who are whining about how the placemarks are cluttering their view of the crop circles & secret underground bases.

If it upsets anyone when some of us choose to not forget those who died for service & freedom, then just don't read the thread, don't download the attachment, & turn your layers off until you zoom in on whatever you're wanting to look at. If you're trying to look at an entire country or state, you don't need them turned on anyway.

And please quit disrespecting the dead, & insulting the families, by needless comments such as by mthd0 & syncr0.

And remember too, a large percentage of GE members are either former servicemen & servicewomen of their respective countries, and/or have friends or family currently in theater. I, myself, fall into all 3 of those catagories.

When you say you'd rather not be bothered with un-necessary placemarks honoring fallen soldiers, because you have something more important to look at, many of us may just take that as a personal insult.

Maybe the Mods will see fit to remove this post, which would be fine...but I've never been guilty of keeping my mouth shut when it comes to stuff like this.

Now, have a peachy day.

I can help with some of the town in Eastern Arizona USA as I live here. Lot of territory, few towns. Just houses in open space.

EdC

This is amazing, keep up the good work and keep letting people know about the men and women who are dying.