+bigdog999 Posted February 21, 2006 Posted February 21, 2006 I haven't been around much, but I've just started looking at the site again recently. I've noticed that some of the caches have links to google earth and others don't. Is this the owner's decision or something wrong elsewhere? I've checked it with both google earth running and not.
+The Leprechauns Posted February 21, 2006 Posted February 21, 2006 Google Earth only displays 150 caches at a time. If you are zoomed out too far, it chooses 150 at random. It will tell you this over in the left hand menu bar. All the active caches will display, if you are zoomed in right.
Joani Posted February 21, 2006 Posted February 21, 2006 (edited) I am not sure what you are asking. Could you provide a link to a cache that has a Google Earth link? --Marky P.S. Dang it, Joani was on my computer! Edited February 21, 2006 by Joani
robertlipe Posted February 21, 2006 Posted February 21, 2006 (edited) Not to argue pedantics with a hamster or a weasel or a leprechaun, but Google Earth itself will display appoximately a bazillion wpts. Lep's answer for what geocaching.com decides to hand your computer as a GE file is one thing. What geocaching.com decides to hand GE as formatted data is a different subject. Edited February 21, 2006 by robertlipe
BRTango Posted February 21, 2006 Posted February 21, 2006 Holy schnikey's... Raine, how'd you do that? That's so cool!!!
+Raine Posted February 22, 2006 Posted February 22, 2006 I was playing around with my KML creation class and just tested out to see how many I could put on there.. It's pretty cool Took forever for it to load though and Elias had to get me another gig of ram for my dev pc
+Sokratz Posted February 22, 2006 Posted February 22, 2006 I love the Google Earth interface. Allows for easy route planning! However, one thing that would make it even better is to make a small change to the icons. It currently shows the types of caches (traditional, multi, etc) which is great, but it's missing the "status" of the cache. Maybe an update to the icons to include a red X through it if the cache is temporally disabled or something like that. I think it would help a ton in route planning. Thanks for listening. Sokratz
+Team Snorkasaurus Posted February 23, 2006 Posted February 23, 2006 Um, wow! (Hey, I think I can see my house!)
BRTango Posted February 23, 2006 Posted February 23, 2006 I was playing around with my KML creation class and just tested out to see how many I could put on there.. It's pretty cool Took forever for it to load though and Elias had to get me another gig of ram for my dev pc Ah... just another gig of ram, ok... that's cool. Wish I had someone to buy me another gig of ram, you lucky... oh, ah, yeah... did I say that with my outside voice? um, yeah.
+bigdog999 Posted February 25, 2006 Author Posted February 25, 2006 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ac-22247d9f7866 Which is GCRA85 or Geese Landing. Above the UTM, it lists a link for Google Map, (inc Satellitte), or Google Earth. This link opens up Google Earth and goes to the cache. But it is not displayed on every site. It may have been something I did when I was more involved in the sport, but I wonder why it's not displayed on every page.
+caderoux Posted February 25, 2006 Posted February 25, 2006 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ac-22247d9f7866 Which is GCRA85 or Geese Landing. Above the UTM, it lists a link for Google Map, (inc Satellitte), or Google Earth. This link opens up Google Earth and goes to the cache. But it is not displayed on every site. It may have been something I did when I was more involved in the sport, but I wonder why it's not displayed on every page. Greasemonkey?
+bigdog999 Posted February 25, 2006 Author Posted February 25, 2006 The more I think about it, I think I did install Greasemonkey and Lordelph's script to do this, but I had forgotten about it. I think that when Greasemonkey updated there were problems with the script and no new updates to it.
+ByrnedFish Posted March 5, 2006 Posted March 5, 2006 Raine, how did you get it to show wo many caches, and when your zoomed out past 500 miles. My caches disappear if im that far out.
+Raine Posted March 6, 2006 Posted March 6, 2006 I created a KML file that had all the caches in it, then loaded that file. It was done separately then with the network KML service. -Raine
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted March 6, 2006 Posted March 6, 2006 Now we know why the servers have been so slow... John
+Markwell Posted March 6, 2006 Posted March 6, 2006 Raine, how did you get it to show wo many caches, and when your zoomed out past 500 miles. My caches disappear if im that far out. What? Haven't you been getting your 500GB PQ file "All caches archived and unarchived in the United States"? :) I think the key is here: He works for the "man" and can do REALLY cool stuff that we can't.
+alexrudd Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 (edited) <google earth image with all the caches in it> (1)See that cache in the middle, stacked on top of all the others? That's mine. * (2)I hear nudecacher has a GSAK database of all the caches in the world. You can't let him beat you. (3)What is that, 4GB of RAM or something? (4)Add a little tiny Signal somewhere and make it into a wallpaper. "Where's Signal? April 2006 Desktop Wallpaper" *Obviously not. But people have a hard time detecting my humor. Edited March 19, 2006 by alexrudd
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