Google earth made better

[+SESCubed]

I think it would be great if the kml overlay were to show "caches found" with a yellow flag. This would make the feature an order of magnitude more important.

 

Just an idea. Maybe US$0.02 worth!

 

Scott of SESCubed

[+5winters]

I think it would be great if the kml overlay were to show "caches found" with a yellow flag. This would make the feature an order of magnitude more important.

 

Just an idea. Maybe US$0.02 worth!

 

Scott of SESCubed

 

Just drop in your "My find PQ" and there you go! You can also change the icon in GE too.

[+alexrudd]

Think about it for a second. How does your copy of Google Earth know who you are?

[+tozainamboku]

Think about it for a second. How does your copy of Google Earth know who you are?

 

Ah but it does (sort of). The network KML file knows who you are. You downloaded the link from your My Account page when you were logged in to geocaching.com. Right now, it uses this information to limit you to 200 refreshes per day. It could be used to filter your finds just as well. From the About Google Earth KML page:

The link has been set up to work just for you. In the future we will provide various filtering features to allow for more specific search requirements.

[+SESCubed]

I think it would be great if the kml overlay were to show "caches found" with a yellow flag. This would make the feature an order of magnitude more important.

 

Just an idea. Maybe US$0.02 worth!

 

Scott of SESCubed

 

Just drop in your "My find PQ" and there you go! You can also change the icon in GE too.

 

It is not clear to me what a "My find PQ" even is. I am clearly a newbie if the feature I ask for already exists. Is there a tutorial can you post more info??

 

TIA

 

SESCubed

[+SESCubed]

OK. I get it. "My find PQ" is a pocket query of "my finds". Great.

 

How do I drop it into google earth??

 

scott of sescubed

[+The Leprechauns]

1. Open Google Earth.

2. Select "File" from the top menu, then "Open."

3. Switch the file type, which defaults to "Google Earth" (kml, kmz, etc.) over to "GPS" (gpx or loc)

4. Navigate to the location of your desired pocket query file.

5. Click on the "open" button.

 

For extra credit, make up for losing the fancy cache icons from the network kml by using GSAK or GPX Spinner to customize the icons in your GPX file. There's also a Google Earth add-on that will do this for you.

[+LeGodFather]

OK. I get it. "My find PQ" is a pocket query of "my finds". Great.

 

How do I drop it into google earth??

 

scott of sescubed

Pretty simple. File, Open.. load the GPX file you received!

[+alexrudd]

I think drag'n drop works too.

[+SESCubed]

I played with it. Got it loaded. For extra credit I photoshopped a gif for my one little marker. To make one that google earth liked, took two hours. With google earth size matters.

 

Thanks to everyone!

 

Now I still would like it if Groundspeak would serve the google earth overlay with caches and "found caches" of a different color.

 

What I have now easily shows me what I have found but to show caches and caches found this way makes a garbled mess of overlapping icons where there is a cache and my "found" gif on top.

 

But if it was served the way I request I'd all be visually easier to see unfound caches.

Edited October 17, 2006 by SESCubed

[+Scoutbound]

..And PQs aren't available to Normal Members like me. Of course, I could manually input every cache I've found...

[+Jhwk]

..And PQs aren't available to Normal Members like me. Of course, I could manually input every cache I've found...

$3 gets you quite a few benefits...