pilotsr & pilotjr

Thanks Joe: I hadn't thought about the screen clutter with the balloons open. Happy holidays. Marc

Does anyone know if there is a way to show the pinpoint info on S&T for all the pinpoints simultaneously? It would be easier to have all of the cache (waypoint) names always displayed while driving than to highlight the one I think I am going to. Thanks for any help, and Happy New Year to all. Marc

Thanks Maxwell. That's great. That makes all the difference in making this a real useful feature. I knew mine wasn't an original idea. I just had to find someone who had some experience with it.

Okay, so no one's out there. I'll reply to my own post. The one flaw that I found after working with Google Earth last night is that it shows random caches. If you change the view even slightly, it queries the Geocaching server again and you wind up with a different set of caches. Some will be the same, and some will be different. It still helped me to get 8 locations to cache today that were directly on my 45 mile trip from home. (There were a lot more than 8, it's all I knew I would have time for).

Hi Everyone: I have never done a PQ, but it looked a bit complicated for me. I was planning on spending some time working with it until a couple of days ago, when I downloaded the .kml add-on to Google Earth. If you haven't done this, do it now. It's awsome!!. You can enter a start and end point like in MapQuest, and you will get turn-by-turn routing. The best part of all is that it will plot all the caches graphically in the area. The only addition I would like to see is some kind of filter that will filter out the caches outside of whatever parameters you put in; i.e. route from A to B, showing only caches within a mile on either side of the route. I don't know how difficult this is to program, but it sure would be cool. If not, it's still pretty easy to pick out caches along the route as it now works.

Thanks for all the info. I'm still sorting through it, but I get the feeling I'm not the first person to ask for this. Some of it I understand, and some of it is Greek to me. But if I can fly a plane, I ought to be able to figure this out. It's great to know there are people out there who are will to help a newbie get started.

How do I find cache locations along a planned route? I know I can enter a city, zip code or LAT/LON coordinates on the web site, but what if I am planning a trip, say from Cleveland to Buffalo. Is there a way to find the location of caches along the way without sitting at the computer with a map and entering a couple of dozen cities? I'm new to this, and my son and I have been having a lot of fun with it so far. Thanks in advance for any help from the community.