• Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Finding Places and Directions

• Marking Places

• Using Layers

• Using Map Features

• Using Places

• About KML

• Sharing Place Information

• Touring Places

  • Setting Which Items Are Toured
  • Setting Touring Behaviour

• Editing Places and Folders

• Managing Search Results

• Measuring Distances and Areas

• Viewing Sky

• Drawing Paths and Polygons

• Using Image Overlays and 3D Models

• Using Flight Simulator

• Importing Your Data Into Google Earth

• Using Style Templates

• Using GPS Devices with Google Earth

• Making Videos with Google Earth

• Keyboard Controls

• 3D Viewer Options

Touring Places

In addition to touring directions, you can tour items in your Places listing by selecting the checkbox next to items that you want to tour and clicking the Play Tour button at the bottom of the Places panel. The tour begins playing in the 3D viewer which flies to each location and stops for a period of time before flying to the next place in the list. To stop the tour, click the Stop Tour button beneath the Places listing. To pause or resume the tour, click the Play Tour button.

1. Play Tour button
2. Stop Tour button

Note - If you click or grab terrain in the 3D viewer during a tour, the tour pauses. Click the Play button to resume the tour.

You can control which items are visited in your tour, as well as the touring behaviour itself, as described in the following topics:

• Setting Which Items Are Toured
• Setting Touring Behaviour

Setting Which Items Are Toured

		Action Required	Result
	Tour all ticked items	Place a checkmark next to all placemarks, overlays and paths that you want to tour. Click the Play Tour button (bottom of the Places panel).	All items that have a tick next to them are visited in the tour, beginning with the first one in the list.
	Tour only one folder or item.	Tick the appropriate folder or item. Un-tick all other folders and items in the Places folder. Click the Play Tour button (bottom of the Places panel).	Only individual placemarks, overlays and lines within a folder are toured. Everything else is ignored by the tour even if it is ticked. Note: This also includes any subfolders within the parent folder.
	Touring Directions or Paths	Tick the folder containing the directions or path(s) that you want to tour. (Directions can be listed in the Directions tab or saved to My Places.) Un-tick all other folders and items in the Places folder. Click the Play Tour button (bottom of the Places panel).	The path or route is followed in the 3D viewer.

Setting Touring Behaviour

Touring Speed

You can modify touring speed, which controls how fast the viewer "flies" to each stop in the tour. Keep in mind that setting the tour to a high speed requires that your cache contain all imagery or else the Earth, road and placemark imagery will not be streamed quickly enough to keep up with the tour.

1. Windows/Linux: Click Tools > Options. Mac: Click Google Earth > Preferences.
2. Click the Touring tab.
3. In the Fly-To/Tour Settings area, adjust the speed accordingly.

Pause Time and Balloons at Each Stop

You can set the desired pause time for each stop in the tour. You can also set Google Earth to display balloons at each placemark when the tour pauses.

1. Windows/Linux: Click Tools > Options. Mac: Click Google Earth > Preferences.
2. Click the Touring tab.
3. In the Fly-To/Tour Settings area, adjust the Tour Pause slider in seconds, from 0 to 60, or enter any number in seconds.
4. To display descriptive balloons at each placemark when a tour pauses, select Show balloon when tour is paused. Learn more about placemarks.

Number of Loops

By default, the tour will perform one pass of the selected items. However, you can control how many times the tour is played.

1. Windows/Linux: Click Tools > Options. Mac: Click Google Earth > Preferences.
2. Click the Touring tab.
3. In the Fly-To/Tour Settings area, adjust the Play Tour selector by pressing the arrow or entering the number of times that you want the tour replayed.

You can also select Infinite by clicking the down arrow from a start position of 1.

Driving Directions/Touring Path Options

You can determine the angle of view, speed and camera distance from each point in the driving directions with these settings.

1. Windows/Linux: Click Tools > Options. Mac: Click Google Earth > Preferences.
2. Click the Touring tab.
3. In the Driving Directions Tour Options area, adjust the controls for tilt, range and speed to your preferences.

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