New Google Earth

[landnrailroader]

I have been looking at this new web based thing off and on for several weeks and I've about give up on it. Not a bad issue as I have digitized more routes than I likely will ever complete as incomplete but one thing stands out. In the existing GE one can set it where lat/long reads out down at the lower left edge of the screen in decimal degrees, or degree/minute/sec. I have not found anywhere that the new version will convert to decimal values and while it is not hard to do that manually, it does eat up a lot of time doing a route. Anybody figure this out?

Jerry

[frliss]

My problem with web based Google Earth is that it no longer shows railroads.

Fred

[MSTS lifer]

My problem with web based Google Earth is that it no longer shows railroads.

Fred

Well..... That's strange. Mine apprently auto updated and all of still works the same. You're saying you can no longer see tracks in GE or are you talking about something else?

[frliss]

Well..... That's strange. Mine apprently auto updated and all of still works the same. You're saying you can no longer see tracks in GE or are you talking about something else?

I'm talking about the online version of GE. The downloaded app works just fine displaying railroads.

Fred

[landnrailroader]

When I use it, or try to use it, railroads and roads show up fine but the aerial imagery appears no better than on the old GE, so I plan to get everything I can digitized etc. before next June. I have however downloaded a install of the old version just in case. As I mentioned, lack of decimal degrees is a minor but frustrating issue.

Jerry

[frliss]

I stand corrected. The online version isn't the same as the one I saw a week or two ago.

It looks a bit complicated, so I have my work cut out for me learning the new Google Earth.

Fred

[landnrailroader]

Fred,

You sure do and I have not found any instructions for it at all. So I will continue using the old version as long as I can, and keep trying to figure out the new one.

Jerry

[tarrant75]

It WILL do Decimal Degrees... you just have to change it in the settings menu
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[landnrailroader]

Thanks Chris, that is what I needed.

Jerry