+wheretheskygrows Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Hi, is there a way to take a pocket query and put those caches onto a geocaching.com map? I like the idea of seeing the proximity of caches to each other. If there's no way to take pocket query caches and put them onto a geocaching map, is there a way to input the caches into another map (mapquest, google, etc). If this has been discussed, I do apologize.
+Lasagna Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Hi, is there a way to take a pocket query and put those caches onto a geocaching.com map? I like the idea of seeing the proximity of caches to each other. If there's no way to take pocket query caches and put them onto a geocaching map, is there a way to input the caches into another map (mapquest, google, etc). If this has been discussed, I do apologize. Download the Google Earth plugin ... this will allow you to view caches near any particular area automatically. If you want a specifc set of caches, you can open a GPX/LOC file in Google Earth and it will plot them for you.
+Team Teuton Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Just drag your unzipped .gpx file into the 'Temporary Places' folder of GoogleEarth and you're set.
+wheretheskygrows Posted April 30, 2006 Author Posted April 30, 2006 wow, thanks for the responses. i forgot about google earth. i actually started playing around with Mapbuilder.net, which lets you import a CSV file (which you can create from GSAK), then plots the points for you and creates a Google map. It works great, but obviously you need a webpage to view the map. Ideally, i'd love to be able to save the map locally to my PC. Thanks again.
+dave_n_ang Posted May 7, 2006 Posted May 7, 2006 I just got back from a two week road trip, where I wanted local access to a map of the caches I'd downloaded. I happen to have Streets and Trips on my laptop, and found it invaluable to view cache locations, since I didn't have online access. It took several steps, and was quite the geek-fest, if I do say so myself, but it worked really well. My wife and I were able to pick and choose interesting caches along our route, on the fly. Here were the basic steps: 1) Create a pocket query and get the GPX file 2) Import the GPX file into GSAK 3) Export the caches to HTML 4) Export the caches to Microsoft Streets and Trips format 5) Load the caches into Streets and Trips. 6) The the display options on the "pushpins" (caches) to display URL, difficulty and terrain. The cool thing was that Streets and Trips came with a little USB GPS, which tracks your current location on your route. That way when we were ready for a rest stop, we could see if there were any caches near by, and go check them out. It added a great diversion to the driving. I'm not particularly sensitive, so if there's a one click way to do the same thing, don't be shy about letting me know.
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