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I was just about to ask the same question, but figured somebody else had already done so previously. I notice that there is no official reply yet. Should we expect this to be addressed?

You may very well be right, but what you're leaving out of the equation is important: Pocket Queries are customized per user. Each one is only useful to a single user. Even if all users customized their PQ to be identical, Geocaching.com is still pushing out each one individually. An RSS feed, however, would be a single stream for everybody, with possible individual filters on either client or server side. Presuming the interest in each is equal (I know, I know), a very strong argument could be made that the latter would have less of a footprint from the perspective of burdening the system. However, your point that Geocaching.com can control when this service runs (ex: during the slow hours of the overnight, leaving the site unburdened during daylight hours) would no doubt be compelling enough to stick with the former (ie: existing) option. ... but the equation isn't as simple as Push-is-less-than-Pull

What frustrates me about this was that it took some poking around on my own to find the Google Earth/Geocaching.com network link that did exactly as I originally requested. Since, geocaching.com has made this functionality a little more prevalent (thank you!) but it's disappointing that I was unable to find the assistance I originally sought within the forums. Thanks for your replies anyway, however. They put me on the right track.

Oh I know! And that's what excites me about this. Basically, all I'm talking about doing is essentially just automating that GPX import by getting Google Earth to add another checkbox, EXACTLY like they do for the Degree Confluence Project (www.confluence.org). If they can do it for that, why not Geocaches too? I get your point though. I suppose in the meantime, I can use Pocket Queries to give me a new GPX file of caches in my area. *shrug*

While I know scraping is in violation of the TOU and I would never want to violate those, as a .NET developer and Google Earth fan, it would be really cool to intregrate the two for Geocaching.com Premier Members. It might look like this (and I'd be willing to pay to use such a feature). I fire up Google Earth and zoom in to a certain predetermined zoom-level. Once there, Google Earth passes the centered lat/long to (once again, a Premium Members only) Geocaching.com script which generates XML of caches within the viewable area. For my purposes & style, this would be amazing and I would love to be part of the development volunteers for such an undertaking. That's my two cents.