Toogle display of feature names on map on/off

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Which products are relevant to this feature request?

Google Earth

What should this feature enhancement do?

Recommend having an option to toggle the display of feature names as 
labels on the map. If a given KML resource has many features then the 
labels obscure much of the map details and placemarks themselves. A toggle 
option would allow user to define when the labels should be shown without 
having the KML designer to hard code one or the other options.

This will be similar to the option to toggle the grid lines but this would 
affect whether the labels are rendered or not.

Are there any currently known workarounds that produce the same, or
similar, result?

Work-around is either not include a name for a given feature then you have 
untitled labels in the menu list view which makes finding placemarks in 
the list nearly impossible. A better approach is using a styleMap with 
labelStyle scale = 0 by default and scale = 1 in highlight mode but this 
prevents showing all the labels which is sometimes desired.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?
tid=102295d8e0e29b85&hl=en

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gjmath...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2009 at 8:31

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Hi,
wondering why this issue hasn't been assigned to a developer yet.
Has there been any further progress, or has it been put on hold?
thx

Original comment by davidtop...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2010 at 7:19

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Wondering it is not made yet

Original comment by nestor....@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2011 at 9:51

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Would be VERY SIMPLE in realization

Original comment by nestor....@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2011 at 9:52

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I would also need this feature.

Original comment by nejc.skoberne@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2011 at 10:08

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Also would like to have this feature...

Original comment by benjamin...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2011 at 3:01

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This is insane that it is not a feature

Original comment by neil.be...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2011 at 3:23

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Another VOTE from me

Original comment by charliek...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2012 at 4:41

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This issue is nearly 2.5 years old and still has a status of "New".

Original comment by Clubbav...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2012 at 4:19

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I REALLY need this feature.  Please give it some consideration sooner rather 
than later.

Original comment by davidap...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2012 at 6:20

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An addition could be: Toggle between On/Off/Automatic
Automatic is depending on the fontsize relative to nearby markers and zoomlevel.

Original comment by robvd...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2012 at 11:42

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This would help me so much. . Or at least having the option to select multiple 
pins, then I could just turn the style to 0, but not individually for my 69 
manually inputed addresses!

Original comment by GregLamb...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2012 at 8:33

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This is exactly what I need for my project.  Please add this feature Google! 

Original comment by happiest...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 2:00

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I need this as a feature!

Original comment by TracerGr...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2013 at 6:28

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I just came to this problem as well and I am not nicely surprised this is not 
as common feature. Hmm....

Original comment by farar...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2013 at 12:33

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Couldn't believe that this feature was ever requested back in 2009, and nothing 
has been done on it during the past 4 years!  This is obviously a very 
important and useful function when you're dealing with many landmarks.  So, 
please, Google, add it to the new release of Earth.  Thanks.

Original comment by chunlin....@gmail.com on 16 May 2013 at 2:51

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I also really need this feature for my project

Original comment by myhung06...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2013 at 3:48

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It would be a handy feature.

Original comment by harsc...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2013 at 6:37

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would really like to see this feature. having to figure out a work around now.

Original comment by firstres...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2014 at 7:14

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I need this features for my beetles distribution maps!! 

Original comment by valeria....@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2014 at 4:12

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Would be great to have. 

Original comment by ForB...@gmail.com on 20 May 2014 at 12:22

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Looks like this one has been given an unofficial "Will Not Fix", so perhaps 
someone could inbox me about collaborating to code up an Add-On for GE and 
Chrome which controls the labeling a little better.

Original comment by davidtop...@gmail.com on 20 May 2014 at 3:09

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Any update about this?
would be cool feature for me

Original comment by nurat...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2014 at 3:28

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Survey says?

Original comment by scott.gr...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2015 at 5:01

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For god's sake google!

I hereby pledge to use Apple Maps from now until you add this SIMPLE feature.

Original comment by ach...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2015 at 10:13

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I do pledge as well.

Original comment by elto...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2015 at 1:51

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