Google Earth Pro discontinued use of county lines

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timkilbride

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Anyone find a good replacement solution? I used the county lines for finding lat/long for GPS based scanning.

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GTR8000

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I'd love to know what their excuse for getting rid of the county lines was. It's not as if they change often enough that it was a burden keeping them updated. I'm not impressed with the replacement layers so far, but I guess Google knows better than the rest of us, huh? :mad:
 

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Google went from a good service to one with a huge ego. Not the first trick they have pulled.
 

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Google never keep them up to date ,same with village/city/CDP boundaries. In my opinion its easier to use the TIGER/Line shapefiles the census bureau makes.
If you guys would like I can share my custom KML version. I have the national county boundaries, places, & county subdivisions for all 50 states on it.
 

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As annoying as their new "roads" overlays that instead of a thin unobtrusive line, it's this fuzzy shady crap that blocks the view of the road itself and things a long side of the road, thus defeating the purpose of the program altogether.

Update , Google has hundreds of complaints about this since September.
There is a KMZ file here USA Counties that does seem to work fairly well. Click on the "show on Google Earth" and it downloads a KMZ file.
 

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The Earth Point web site with the USA Counties file in post #6 says:
You are not signed in to your account. USA Counties will display a pop-up message every ten minutes and will be deactivated after one day. For unrestricted access, please sign in or purchase a subscription...
 

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The Earth Point web site with the USA Counties file in post #6 says:
You are not signed in to your account. USA Counties will display a pop-up message every ten minutes and will be deactivated after one day. For unrestricted access, please sign in or purchase a subscription...
Yep, that was a bad suggestion on those forums.
 

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If you guys would like I can share my custom KML version. I have the national county boundaries, places, & county subdivisions for all 50 states on it.
Please do share that, thanks!
 

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Please do share that, thanks!
I'm sorry my desktop gave out around the time that you replied, I have ordered a new one, unfournately its wont be here untill the 20th of January. Hopefully I'll be able to recover the files via backup and get them posted then.
 
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