And I am truly looking for an answer, not trying to be confrontational about it, But I think you misunderstood the issue. It has nothing to do with the check boxes at all, at least from my historical searches I have performed over the years.
So Labrador Bob, Please help me understand.
If I was in an area of Google Earth, and performed a search with the word "church" in the search field (not the name of some church, but the category of church etc), a whole bunch of red dots would show up on the map. I could go to each one, and it would show me the name of it by clicking on it. Or I could zoom close and see ruins there, or where a past church used to be. Same for any number of other examples. It was like a wild card search. I could look up camps, churches, chapels, cemeteries, , crossings, etc.
When I contacted Google Earth Forums, This is what transpired:
Me:
I upgraded to the GE Pro version when it became free. On the old version of Google Earth, I could back outward (i.e. higher elevation) on the display, and do a search for a category of things, such as church, or cemetery, or chapel, etc.
The map would then fill up with red dots at all known locations.
Today, I tried to do that sort of search, and I am getting a specific list to the left panels area. I am not seeing my red dots. I know for a fact that there are small town churches and cemeteries that used to show up as the dots.
Can someone tell me how to get the dots to show back up on GE Pro?
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barryhunter responded with this:
Unfortunately the feature has been removed, see
https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/maps/-BBHHTqju08/discussion
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Now by going to the forums, this link produced this:
Joshua LankarLevel 1
Apr 28
Please Help,
I was using Google earth as a way for me to organize the business's I have approached with my product. If I was to search "napa auto parts" every napa auto parts store would pop up as a red dot throughout north america, then i could scroll down to a respected region. However recently when I type in "Napa auto parts", only a about 8 locations pop up at any time as a balloon and it makes me click on page by page in order to display locations on earth. Simply put I cant see all the napa auto parts stores throughout north america or all of any companies locations for that matter.
How did do i do this? How do i get this functionality back
Please help!
Thanks a bunch
-Joshua
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ME: This is the equivalent as using the wild card search terms as I was describing in my original post.
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Abby, with Google responded as below
Abby - Google Maps Community Manager Google Employee
Apr 28
Hi Joshua,
Thanks for visiting the Maps Help Forum!
Unfortunately, this functionality is no longer supported. I will pass along to the team that you're looking to see all search results on the globe, instead of the 10 listed on the first page. As a tip, one way to make sure you're seeing locations in a specific area is to zoom into a specific area, and then search results should be focused for that viewport.
Abby
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So, in conclusion, it does not appear to be what you suggested Labrador Bob, at least not as I read what you posted. Instead, we have lost the red dots, which were very useful, as my original post stated. If I am missing something, please explain again, how to get those red dots back......If not, then perhaps we should act in concert and express to GE that we want that capability to at least be something you can turn on. I thank anyone for their time in helping to resolve this.
With Respect,
Dennis