Initial start-up view

[sijpie]

The default start-up view is over North America. In the past I have managed to change it, but for the life of me I can't remember how I did it. :slant:

Anybody that does remember?

[shrinkingman]

I'm pretty sure you just have to save a placemark with the name 'default'. It's been a while since I did it so I can't remember for sure, I'll have to try it.

[stefankarakashev]

Shrinking Man is right

[GEH4EVR]

Stefankarakashev, why did you post that? It didn't really contribute to the forum did it?

[stefankarakashev]

oh oh isn't there freedom of speech? Shrinking man said that he wasn't very sure that's why

[Captain Hornblower]

There is a placemark called default. Set the view as you prefer, rightclick on the default and choose edit in the context menu. Enable advanced and choose the View tab. Now just click on the button snapshot current view.
That's it...

[tizerist]

i dont have a default placemark. maybe i deleted it
i tried to create a new one in my places, and i selected snapshot current view, but its not doing it

[Captain Hornblower]

You can try this:
There should be a myplaces.kml in this folder C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\application data\Google\GoogleEarth

(<username> is your name you log in with)

Open myplaces.kml with the editor or notepad (rightclick and open with in the context menu). Scroll down to the buttom and set the cursor right before this script part:
</Folder>
</Document>
</kml>

Then copy and paste this text at the cursor position:

<Placemark>
<name>default</name>
<visibility>0</visibility>
<description>Google Earth default view</description>
<LookAt id="khLookAt619">
<longitude>11.77679204322234</longitude>
<latitude>46.6844810861228</latitude>
<range>6370999.999999994</range>
<tilt>4.601115922324531e-011</tilt>
<heading>-0.6941960702350206</heading>
</LookAt>
<Point id="khPoint620">
<coordinates>11.77679204322235,46.68448108612282,288.034</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>

Close and save and start GE again. If it works like I hope, the default should be there again. If not, save all your own placemarks and reinstall GE again.

[shrinkingman]

Just create a placemark and call it 'default', it shouldn't be any more complicated than that. Or right-click on any of your saved placemarks (in your Places list) and rename it to 'default'. Just tried it several times in GE4 and it works every time. You can untick it in Places, it will still go there on startup but it won't display the label.

[sijpie]

Thanks!