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Google Earth Errata and Suggestions
corrections and suggestions for the next update of the CoML Google Earth layer.
For Corrections
- Give the title of the placmark in the pop-up window.
- or Describe the location of the placemark (Google Earth should give the lat/long near the bottom of the window if you click on the icon)
- note text and credit errors.
- if the placemark in is the wrong location, let us know the lat/long
For your convenience, structured KML (the original version E&O Team and Map&Viz Team built) can be downloaded so it is a little bit easier to browse CoML placemarks. Click the link below.
Original structured CoML layers for GE5
Note that the folder structure is gone in the official Google Earth 5. Thus at thie moment, we don't accept suggestion about folder structures (e.g. this placemark should be in this folder; please add another folder...)
MAR-ECO
However, I checked the items already uploaded by CoML referring to MAR-ECO. Unfortunately I discovered some errors and would ask you please to make a few amendments:
1) Migration pathways. This item is placed way off the mid-Atlantic Ridge in an area we never visited. It is OK to include this item, but it should then be placed on the Ridge proper (i.e. further West where the ride is apparent from the relief).
2) New Continent expedition. The expedition was not funded by MAR-ECO, but by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). It would be quite embarrassing to let this error stay, in particular to Professor Priede. The name of the expedition is also very strange. I know it was used in press releases, but I’d much rather see another title, e.g. ‘2007 Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone Expedition’.
3) Daily vertical migrations. This is also fine to include (although vertical migration is hardly a new discovery), but the year should be 2004, not 2005.