Google Earth

[+ChiefEagleBear]

How do you get your caches displayed on Google Earth Mapping?

[poodlenuts]

http://www.geocaching.com/kml/buildnetworkkml.aspx

[Motorcycle_Mama]

Or make a Pocket Query and open the GPX file in Google Earth.

[+terrim]

I do this frequently - create a gpx file, or even run it through gpsbabel to make a kml. When I open it up in Google Earth, only a few caches show on the display. The entire file shows up in the the "Temporary Places" list on the left, and if you click on one of them there, the display zooms to the correct place, but there's no symbol marking the spot. Occasionally I can make symbols appear or disappear by goofing around with clicking the checkmarks in the list off and on in various ways (e.g. show routes, when I don't have any, then hide them).

 

Any ideas? I've tried to search the forums but don't have specific enough search terms to focus in on this.

[+Cache_Rats]

Get Gsak at http://gsak.net/ install it and pick which version of the Google macro you will need from the gsak forum here http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showforum=28

If you are a premium member of Geocaching.com you will be able to do pocket queries and load them in gsak. Gsak will keep track of your finds and not found caches. Read the other forums at Gsak and you will see there are a bunch of other macros that will do neat stuff with Gsak. Before I go caching, I always run the google earth macro and it shows me all the caches I haven't found yet. I move google earth around to decide where I want to head to, and save a picture of the screen. Print it out and I'm gone. Hope this helps

Edited August 6, 2008 by Cache_Rats

[+terrim]

Well, there you go. I have GSAK, and use it all the time, but never thought to use it to create this output, since it seemed like the gpx file should work. But I did run one of the macros and now I see all 1200 - or at least it looks like it! - in Google Earth. Great!

[+Cache_Rats]

If you click at the bottom right corner of gsak ( where it shows found and unfound totals), click on only the not found total so only those are on the screen, then run the macro in gsak. The output will only be the ones you need to find, and will eliminate the ones you have found. Saves on the clutter on the map.

[+K7CJS]

Get Gsak at http://gsak.net/ install it and pick which version of the Google macro you will need from the gsak forum here http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showforum=28

If you are a premium member of Geocaching.com you will be able to do pocket queries and load them in gsak. Gsak will keep track of your finds and not found caches. Read the other forums at Gsak and you will see there are a bunch of other macros that will do neat stuff with Gsak. Before I go caching, I always run the google earth macro and it shows me all the caches I haven't found yet. I move google earth around to decide where I want to head to, and save a picture of the screen. Print it out and I'm gone. Hope this helps

 

Can you kick start this for me and tell me how to get the Google Earth - Basic Export (one of them in the link you gave) into GSAK and run. I tried but got an error and don't know anything about GSAK macros so don't know what to do. Thanks!!!!

[+K7CJS]

Get Gsak at http://gsak.net/ install it and pick which version of the Google macro you will need from the gsak forum here http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showforum=28

If you are a premium member of Geocaching.com you will be able to do pocket queries and load them in gsak. Gsak will keep track of your finds and not found caches. Read the other forums at Gsak and you will see there are a bunch of other macros that will do neat stuff with Gsak. Before I go caching, I always run the google earth macro and it shows me all the caches I haven't found yet. I move google earth around to decide where I want to head to, and save a picture of the screen. Print it out and I'm gone. Hope this helps

 

Dup

Edited August 6, 2008 by GVJeeper

[+team_goobie]

How do you get your caches displayed on Google Earth Mapping?

 

fwiw, ipod touch and iphone users - use the "For Online Maps" option on the cache page and select "Google Maps". Maps will open and you can then bookmark the cache right in Maps. Easy peasy. I stumbled on this completely by accident while planning a cache last week on my new touch.

 

Now, if some enterprising soul would write an app to do batch processing of gpx files and push them to maps- golden! (and probably not too far away - there are already apps that do the same for city guides and such).

[robertlipe]

I do this frequently - create a gpx file, or even run it through gpsbabel to make a kml. When I open it up in Google Earth, only a few caches show on the display. The entire file shows up in the the "Temporary Places" list on the left, and if you click on one of them there, the display zooms to the correct place, but there's no symbol marking the spot. Occasionally I can make symbols appear or disappear by goofing around with clicking the checkmarks in the list off and on in various ways (e.g. show routes, when I don't have any, then hide them).

 

Any ideas? I've tried to search the forums but don't have specific enough search terms to focus in on this.

 

This is covered in this forum at the Google Earth Community a lot. You're importing timestamped data and your time sliders are set to show only the first data point. If you don't care about time slider, just do an view->show time->never. If you want to learn to use them, see http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_gps.html#timeline

 

As an aside, you don't need to "run it through GPSBabel"; Earth can read GPX. It calls (taaa daaa) GPSBabel to do the deed. :-)

[robertlipe]

I do this frequently - create a gpx file, or even run it through gpsbabel to make a kml. When I open it up in Google Earth, only a few caches show on the display. The entire file shows up in the the "Temporary Places" list on the left, and if you click on one of them there, the display zooms to the correct place, but there's no symbol marking the spot. Occasionally I can make symbols appear or disappear by goofing around with clicking the checkmarks in the list off and on in various ways (e.g. show routes, when I don't have any, then hide them).

 

Any ideas? I've tried to search the forums but don't have specific enough search terms to focus in on this.

 

This is covered in this forum at the Google Earth Community a lot. You're importing timestamped data and your time sliders are set to show only the first data point. If you don't care about time slider, just do an view->show time->never. If you want to learn to use them, see http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_gps.html#timeline

 

As an aside, you don't need to "run it through GPSBabel"; Earth can read GPX. It calls (taaa daaa) GPSBabel to do the deed. :-)