A brief introduction on Google Layers
Google Earth has many exciting features in which Google Layers is the one that offers a selection of data points of geographic interest that you can choose to display over your viewing location. This feature contains points of interest along with map, terrain, building data and roads. You will get to view the complete list of layers that is obtainable in the layers panel. In the vision field, you are able to select all the layers that are available (All Layers), (Core) or can also choose, which are recently displayed. In this feature, there is also option of displaying or hiding of any country, state or region borders by unchecking or checking Borders in the layers.
Layers are formed by Google or its content associates which it publishes the content that you will view in the layers panel. Everyone can create data that come into view in Places panel by using Google Earth or KML. There are some steps and tips in order to know points of interest that are not covered in Showing and Hiding Points of Interest. In order to cover or explore the specific area you have to adjust 3D viewer. If you want to find all the schools in a specific city, then you have to adjust the viewer in order to view the whole city. If you think some of the images are too far or not clear then you can view by zooming in and out the size of the viewer. For this you have to use maximum window control or can also drag the size of the window by using the mouse.
In order to expand the layers folder you have to double click on the layers folder and can expand folders inside the layers folders to view certain associate group of point of interest (POIs). Next step is you have to choose one or more points of interest in the list. If there is a business or point of interest of a selected category then in the viewing area that icon appears in the viewer. Specific selections like a geographical feature lake do not at all time provide an icon but instead of it displays a label beside the matching area.
There are also some tips for the users for saving POIs to My Places like if you have once locate a points of interest which you want to save for upcoming Google Earth sessions then you have to just right click i.e. CTRL click on the Mac and choose Save to My Places from the pop-up menu. After this, you have to paste it above a target in the Places panel. For viewing layer sub category, you have to know that some POI acts as a folder, which includes categories of information. These categories are point out by a plus icon, which you can click in order to view the sub categories of the item. For instance, the Dinning layer includes sub categories of all types of dinning from seafood to fast food and with this you can also turn on restaurant information for a particular type of dining i.e. seafood only.
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