There are several things you can do to speed things up minerrick. I've broken the possible problems down by their symptoms.
Clay, your map comes up, but when I click on it to say, zoom in...... nothing happens. It just sits there. It takes forever for the map to be created. And each zoom level takes several minutes "creating map". I don't think it is my internet connection as your site is the only one that is slow. Maybe it is my mac mini that is the problem- but I only have this problem with your site. I would love to find a site like yours to eliminate the hours and hours I am taking to map each township. Tell me what i need to do to be able to view your site....
Rick- Click and drag a box over just the area you want to create a smaller map, it will speed it way up in comparison to hitting the plus sign.
I feel you on the almost cried part, been there and lost a huge amount of work.
All of the data you saved in GE may be recoverable.
That data is stored in a file called myplaces.kml.
There should also be a file called myplaces.backup.kml
These should be located in C:\documents and settings\"your user name"\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth
Now, whenever I put in a long session of research I make a copy of the myplaces.kml file, change the name by adding the date to the name and save it
in a folder on my desktop. Now if you have a crash or corrupt the myplaces file, you can copy the saved file back to the GE folder, change the name back to myplaces.kml
and get all your data back into.
To make all this quicker, I put a shortcut on my desktop to the above GE folder "C:\documents and settings\"your user name"\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth".
It only takes a couple seconds to click the shortcut, copy the file, paste in my storage folder and add the date to the name.
Hopefully this helps save some frustration in the future,
John
Clay, your map comes up, but when I click on it to say, zoom in...... nothing happens. It just sits there. It takes forever for the map to be created. And each zoom level takes several minutes "creating map". I don't think it is my internet connection as your site is the only one that is slow. Maybe it is my mac mini that is the problem- but I only have this problem with your site. I would love to find a site like yours to eliminate the hours and hours I am taking to map each township. Tell me what i need to do to be able to view your site....
The ultimate irony of this whole thing was I was thinking "I've been saving my work, but I've never actually seen the file where it is being saved", so in a moment of brilliance I decided I should create another file on my desktop "just in case". At that point, I NEVER had a crash of google earth. So I went up to the "Save places as" button, clicked it and the whole thing crashed JUST AS I WAS BACKING IT UP. I went online and looked all over the place for where it could be saved, and it was nowhere to be found on my computer. I had over 50 townships of info regarding old mining claims, historical info, areas to check out, etc and it was gone in an instant.....poof! The good news is the 2nd time around I could start fresh and change the way I was noting stuff. So it is much more organized this time. Each township takes me several days of work to compile all the info. The more often I have to recreate it the more i remember about each "hot spot".
Now, google earth crashes probably 5-7 times an hour. So literally every couple of minutes I have to back it up. And amazingly it doesn't have an "auto save" integrated into the program. Are the guys at google lame or something?
I suspect you have far exceeded those numbers.Maximum fetched file size (raw KML, raw GeoRSS, or compressed KMZ) 3MB
Maximum uncompressed KML file size 10MB
Maximum number of Network Links 10
Maximum number of total document-wide features 1,000
The path to some sites is slow while other sites are just fine.
Here is an idea to find out how slow your connection to Land Matter is:
I went to a DOS prompt (yup I'm that old) and I ran a trace route
tracert a space and then the URL of the site
It'll give you the time for each hop on the way to Land Matters. If you get an asterisk, it timed out.