Adding+Markers

Adding Place Markers to a Map
Sometimes when you conduct a search for a particular location, you will be provided with a list of sites already stored in the Google Earth database. These markers may contain information you do not want to include in your map, or you may want to customize the location's description yourself. To be in complete control of a location's marker, you may add your own placemarker to your Google Earth map.

To add a placemarker to your list My Places or to a folder of related sites, go to Add > Placemark or click the "Add placemark" icon on the toolbar.

Google Earth adds a yellow stickpin icon at the center of the worldview window and opens an Untitled Placemark dialog box (see below). You may grab the icon in the worldview window with your cursor and move it precisely to the desired location. Note that the latitude and longitude coordinates change as you adjust the position of the icon. Replace "Untitled Placemark" with an appropriate title for the marker.

You may change the default yellow stickpin icon by clicking its button (to the right of the Name box). This opens a dialog box containing a wide selection of icons from which to choose.

The Description tab is where you may enter text, embed video, post images, and add hyperlinks. Instructions for these tasks are on the Adding Content page.

If you adjust the view of a place marker (by zooming in, changing the tilt, etc.), the place marker must be saved again. To do this, right click the place marker and select "Snapshot view."

To edit a place marker's description, simply right click the icon in the worldview or the place marker's title in the My Places list. Scroll down and select "Properties" to open the dialog box shown on the left.

Click [|here] to go to Google Earth's tutorial on adding markers to your map.