+lordelph Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 (edited) If you use Firefox, I've recently updated my "Geocaching Map Linker" GreaseMonkey script to support links to Google Earth. If you've not got GreaseMonkey, you'll need to grab it from http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ Once GreaseMonkey is installed, right click the link below and choose "Install User Script..." http://files.dixo.net/GeocachingMapLinker.user.js A dialog will appear showing the script name and the pages it will modify - to confirm you want to install, click OK. Once installed, visit a cache page, click the "Google Earth" link and you'll probably be prompted what you want to do - allow it to open the file with Google Earth, and for ease of use, tick the box to say you always want to do that. Now, whenever you click those links, Google Earth will pop up and smoothly transport you to the cache site, planting a flag at the cache coordinates along with a short description and link to the main cache page. Links are added to Google Earths's "Temporary Places", if you want to keep them, just drag them into another folder in the Places pane. Try it, you'll love it! I've using it to place a caching trip to Washington DC! Edited July 13, 2005 by lordelph Link to comment
ertyu Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Can you add a placemarker to the google maps links? For example: http://maps.google.com/?sll=49.87183333,-9...7183333,-97.265 Link to comment
+lordelph Posted July 13, 2005 Author Share Posted July 13, 2005 Done! Upgrade your script simply by re-installing it from the above link. Link to comment
+KC0GRN Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 very nice. Install if greasemonkey was a little kluge, but all in all, once it was up and running it works well. Might want to let people know where to look for the link, it's near the top of the page under the cache coordinates. Link to comment
ertyu Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Very nice. The satellite link doesn't add a marker though. Link to comment
+lordelph Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 Oops, fixed. Re-install by following the install instructions at the top of this thread. Link to comment
+SnoWake Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 OUT-standing! Dingo likes it!! Major kudos for lordelph for both this and the track TB page scripts. VERY nice!! Link to comment
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