+Longfram Kev Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I use google Earth just to look at caches for an idea of caches in an area but I get all caches, including ones I've already found. Is there away of only getting caches I've yet to find and then up dating it to remove my finds as I find? Couldn't find anything on forum or goggle help. Quote Link to comment
Master Mariner Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I use google Earth just to look at caches for an idea of caches in an area but I get all caches, including ones I've already found. Is there away of only getting caches I've yet to find and then up dating it to remove my finds as I find? Couldn't find anything on forum or goggle help. If you use GSAK you can filter out the caches in the area that you have not found. There is a macro on the GSAK website called "ge-2.0.txt" that will then display the filtered caches in Google Earth. I don't have the link to hand but if you email me I can send the macro to you. Quote Link to comment
+mjouk Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I use google Earth just to look at caches for an idea of caches in an area but I get all caches, including ones I've already found. Is there away of only getting caches I've yet to find and then up dating it to remove my finds as I find? Couldn't find anything on forum or goggle help. I have a pocket query which finds nearby caches which I've not found, and an XSLT stylesheet which turns the PQ's GPX file into a KML file for Google Earth. Please let me know if you'd find that useful. Applying an XSLT file is easy on the Mac or Linux, but I don't know how to do it on Windows. Quote Link to comment
Edgemaster Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I use google Earth just to look at caches for an idea of caches in an area but I get all caches, including ones I've already found. Is there away of only getting caches I've yet to find and then up dating it to remove my finds as I find? Couldn't find anything on forum or goggle help. I have a pocket query which finds nearby caches which I've not found, and an XSLT stylesheet which turns the PQ's GPX file into a KML file for Google Earth. Please let me know if you'd find that useful. Applying an XSLT file is easy on the Mac or Linux, but I don't know how to do it on Windows. This is a little extreme - you can open GPX files in Google Earth itself. Quote Link to comment
+mjouk Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I use google Earth just to look at caches for an idea of caches in an area but I get all caches, including ones I've already found. Is there away of only getting caches I've yet to find and then up dating it to remove my finds as I find? Couldn't find anything on forum or goggle help. I have a pocket query which finds nearby caches which I've not found, and an XSLT stylesheet which turns the PQ's GPX file into a KML file for Google Earth. Please let me know if you'd find that useful. Applying an XSLT file is easy on the Mac or Linux, but I don't know how to do it on Windows. This is a little extreme - you can open GPX files in Google Earth itself. Indeed. However, in practice, this didn't appear to work that well for me: some caches didn't appear, and those that did wern't formatted in a useful way. YMMV. Quote Link to comment
+gazooks Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Alternatively you can use the 'view in Google earth' option in Mapsource. - once you have your waypoints loaded of course Quote Link to comment
+C/M Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 I, for one, would also appreciate being able to filter caches right within Google Earth, i.e., if the engine behind the Google Earth KML file provided offered filtering options based on which caches a user has already found. Given that Google-Earth-based access to the Groundspeak database is already associated with a user's ID, this should be trivial to implement. In practice, there might be another hierarchy on top of the current cache-type-based one (i.e., root -> all caches -> types...; root -> caches not found -> types...; root -> found caches -> types). Anyone seconding this? Marco Quote Link to comment
Edgemaster Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Seconded, certainly possible with the kml specs. Quote Link to comment
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