We use google earth with KML/KMZ overlay for building fiber networks, and ever since the new update mobile has gotten absolutely horrendous. Earth pro on my Lenovo laptop no longer opens(even afteruninstall/reinstall). Doesnt allow more than one file to be overlayed at a time and now seems clunky and very difficult to use, where things used to operate wonderfully. Issues on on android, ios, and windows. Please help!

When opening earth app on latest iOS/iphone it defaults to project selection. This is cool. But I don’t have a project and just want to go directly to earth. Is there a setting to toggle this to earth view default? I’m just lazy and don’t want to click twice.

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https://www.google.com/earth/about/ (photos here show the Google Earth I had last week)

Last week I could show all projects on Google Earth but today that option is missing.

Also on both web and mobile home page shows me my projects. It doesn't directly take me to the globe after launching. This new design is bad.

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I do my projects on the Web version. Let me know if I should change this.

I'm pretty sure starting probably around 1-2 years ago; whenever I would look up City/State/Country borders and the red outline that would usually appear depicting x borders, the outline you searched would not stay on the screen and disappear if you wanted to start a line/shape for a project. This sucks!

Now within this past week, the web version has updated again, sorting your projects into a single menu, to where you CANNOT open more than one (1) project!! This is so infuriating to me, and I can't do much to change it.

Does anybody else feel this way or share similar frustrations? IS there a better solution? My projects are stored in my Drive account, all KMLs just full of polygons or lines, I don't know other programs or mediums to use.

Thank you for taking the time to read this

Just scrolling around and noticed Havana Port and this stuff. If you zoom in could it be floating trash?

I use Google Earth for work for a map of our network (loads a local KML file). Until about 5 days ago, no problem. This morning Google Earth tells me that WebGL is not supported on my browser! Nothing changed on Edge (ok, maybe an update using Version 130.0.2849.68 (Official build) (arm64)). Graphics acceleration is turned on. Is this a situation where Google is not playing nice because I am not using their browser with their products ?

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I'm trying to create a movie using the colour gps track, it was created by putting the .gpx file into gpsvisualiser.com to create a .kmz, I can't animate it like I can with the blue track (create tour, export movie) the blue track is the original .gpx file imported into Google earth, spent days on this 😑 any pointers gratefully received, thanks!

Is there a way to determine the cardinal direction between two placemarks in Google Earth? I can't seem to find it. I can measure distance but not direction.

Is there a way when creating measurement paths and polygons to have on measurement automatically follow another. i.e., clicking on one point and clicking on another and automatically having them follow the boundaries of other polygons instead of doing it manually?

I am trying to trace the borders of a town but when I try to add a path or polygon then red outline of the town disappears. Is there away to make the borders stay?

Hi A little indulgence I'm trying, Google earth studio fly to and orbit seems to be limited to just (I think) 5 locations. I'm trying to plot the port calls of a Norwegian coastal ship, but the project ends after 5 fly overs. Am I doing something wrong or can I string together around 20 locations ? Hopefully this makes sense ! Cheers

For my research, I'm going to need to trace the outlines of several hundred agricultural fields and compile them into a kml/shapefile. Many fields are very irregularly shaped and/or round/curved. It seems intuitively like I would be able to trace these outlines on Google Earth iOS using my Apple Pencil, but this does not seem to be supported. In fact, the stylus seems to only work for dragging/panning. Sometimes it can successfully add points to a path/polygon. Any ideas?

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Instead of manually going to the properties of each line and moving both endpoints.

I'm trying to set up links to specific locations in Google Earth Web, but the web interface seems to have a particularly annoying and unhelpful feature, in that it automatically loads the last location you were looking at NO MATTER WHAT link you used to get to Google Earth Web.

For instance, I want to send someone to this location from an outside web page and have constructed the following link to get there: https://earth.google.com/web/search/47.2917539952200,2.9505877838643 -- (It's a spot in the Loire Valley of France). But if you have a cookie from Google Earth in your browser, when you click that link you will instead be brought to a view of whatever you were last looking at on Google Earth).

If for some reason you have recently cleared your cookies, the link will function as expected and you'll end up zooming into that specific location.

MY QUESTION: Is there some way to construct a query string or link that overrides this lame default functionality of Google Earth Web?

It seems rather counterproductive for the web interface to be designed this way, as it makes deep linking to locations basically impossible.

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Hello, is there a possibility if kml is under ther woods? i use google earth studio and cant see my kml if i get near to it. i think it is hidden under the trees but i cant turn off 3d woods and cant bring the track higher

I open Google Earth on my computer, and I get an error message "cannot connect to server at kh.google.com". Online, all webpages are working normally, so the issue is not that I don't have internet access.

Then, I go to the Google Earth web version, and it loads, but comes up all blue.

I uninstall and reinstall the program, and even try different versions, but the same error message occurs. I reboot my computer and even that does not work.

Anyone know what is going on?

I have a Macintosh computer with the latest system version.

Basically the title.

Additional info:

I use Nova Launcher, and just in case there is some region-specific fuckery, I live in S. Korea and my phone is the "Korean model" bought in Korea

I need to generate a grid in Google Earth where each square is 5 minutes in size (latitude/longitude). The total area is a rectangle that’s 105 minutes wide and 85 minutes high. I plan to use QGIS for this since I need each square to be an individual polygon so I can toggle their visibility in Google Earth. Is there a way to do this? Is QGIS the appropriate software?

How does one add coordinates to the bottom corner of the screen on the ios Google earth app? Only coordinates I can currently get to show up are from having the grid lines on or by dropping a pin. I would like coordinates on screen at all times like I used to have it.

I created a project in Google Earth Pro, then added images to placemarks in Google Earth Web. Now the file seems to be too large to export (no warnings, just that smaller projects export but this one freezes and nothing downloads). Is there any work around to this? Any way I could save this to my drive or a way to force the file to export? Any suggestions appreciated!

The local KML file is what I am looking to either download, save to drive, or recover from chrome's local storage.