Kathy
Are you seeing this via a 'Fly to:' search, or simply by zooming in on the map and finding placemarks scattered around your location?
With the former I get just two results, immediately adjacent to each other. I confess I'm not sure where Google Earth gets the data for those from, but it looks like an integral database of place names.
With the latter though, it's a whole swathe of datasets from providers, and which ones you see will depend on what options you have selected in the Layers panel. For example there's a bus stop from transportdirect.info, photos from Panoramio , and a wide range of placemarks from the wider Google Earth Community. With all of those the only way you could get corrections would be to contact companies/individuals directly (Panoramio or example has a 'Misplaced?' link on all photos). I wouldn't go into that with great expectations!
One thing I can't figure out is why the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field does not show on the Wikipedia layer, which I think is shown by default, so I'd suggest that might be worth pursuing. My suspicion though is that it filters it to major cities etc (though Kew's entry is on there :)
).
If you can't beat them, join them, and get adding your content to what is there so at least some of the placemarks are correct!
James
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Frankie Roberto
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:06 PM
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> Subject: Re: Problem with Google Earth
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> Kathy Harmanwrote:
>
> > Hi everyone, I hoping that someone can advise me on an issue we're
> > > experiencing with Google Earth.
> > > I've been asked to check that our Museums (and Country
> Parks etc.)
> > > appear on Google Earth and noticed that, for example, Bosworth
> > > Battlefield has about 8 different entries - only one of
> which is in
> > > the correct geographical place and only one of which has
> the correct
> > > name "Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park".
> > > I think the problem stems from the Google Earth entries being fed
> > > from various different websites, each using User
> Generated Content
> > > (UGC), so perhaps mistakes are inevitable?
> > > Has anyone else noticed this problem and how have they
> dealt with it?
>
>
> As I understand it, Google Earth searches use the same index
> as Google Maps
> - ie it's the same as searching http://maps.google.co.uk/ for
> "Bosworth Battlefield", which gives 145 different results.
> The data comes from Google indexing web pages (if you click
> 'more info' on any of the results you can see which website
> it came from), so it's user-generated in one sense.
>
> There's not much you can do about the additional, incorrect entries.
> However, it might be worth explicitly adding your
> museums/sites to Google using this form:
> http://www.google.com/local/add/splashPage?hl=en-US&gl=US
>
> You can also see user 'reviews' via Google Maps - worth reading!
>
> Frankie
>
> --
> Frankie Roberto
> Experience Designer, Rattle
> 0114 2706977
> http://www.rattlecentral.com
>
> Sent from: Sheffield Sheffield United Kingdom.
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