Geocachers Caught on Google Earth Cam ?

[+prospector27]

Hi im new to all of this, and was curious today when using google earth if any cachers have been snapped whilst accessing / holding a geocache?

 

Would be interesting to find out !

[+Eartha]

Moving to the geocaching topics forums. This forum is for geocoin discussions, and geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

[GOF and Bacall]

Interesting question. I've never heard of any GE images that show cachers but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.

[+secretagentbill]

At least in my area, Google Earth imagery has nowhere near the resolution to recognize a human. Although I suppose it would be possible in more urban areas where the imagery is better. Plus I suppose it is possible (although unlikely) that the Street View Google Car has picked up cachers grabbing LPCs. That would be funny.

[+tekkguy]

"Hey, what's that dude doing messing with that light post?"

 

"Yo, what's with the Muggle and the whacked out car?"

[+Unkle Fester]

I think the reference is the Google cars that run around taking poictures of homes - street level I think they call it.

 

My friend was standing on his front porch when the Google rig went by. Kind of funny to see.

[Odyssey Voyager]

I think the reference is the Google cars that run around taking poictures of homes - street level I think they call it.

 

My friend was standing on his front porch when the Google rig went by. Kind of funny to see.

 

what is the best or easiest way to capture a still frame from one the google maps street images? i think this would be the perfect thread to upload some funny and interesting spontaneous street images (i know of one, although it isn't geocache related).

Edited September 17, 2009 by Odyssey Voyager

[+geodarts]

You never know. The guy with his head stuck in the fence might have been a cacher - hasn't that happened to us all. The person climbing a fence might have been after an evil cache, or he may simply have been climbing a fence. The people moving a freezer with a shopping cart might have been placing a very large cache. And the young women sunbathing were acting very stealthy.

 

Then there has been speculation that this picture actually shows a cache.

Edited September 17, 2009 by Erickson

[+dcigary]

I used Google Street View to find the final location of a multi-stage cache that had me driving all around getting addresses off of buildings. Google Street view wouldn't help me doing the multi-stage part, as it figures out what is writing and people's faces and blurs them out. However, I *think* I can see the final cache in the tree that it's supposed to be in!

[+EscapeFromFlatland]

geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

 

I'm taking this as a challenge.

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

 

I'm taking this as a challenge.

I know there are people who have done strange things when they knew the car was coming, so it could be done on purpose if you could get the schedule. one neighborhood had a parade for the camersa?

[knowschad]

geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

 

I'm taking this as a challenge.

 

 

Just make sure Google blurs the tracking number!

[+Harry Dolphin]

I used Google Street View to find the final location of a multi-stage cache that had me driving all around getting addresses off of buildings. Google Street view wouldn't help me doing the multi-stage part, as it figures out what is writing and people's faces and blurs them out. However, I *think* I can see the final cache in the tree that it's supposed to be in!

 

I did solve two out of three stages of a mystery cache using Google Street View. And figured out what the hint meant on another...

[knowschad]

I used Google Street View to find the final location of a multi-stage cache that had me driving all around getting addresses off of buildings. Google Street view wouldn't help me doing the multi-stage part, as it figures out what is writing and people's faces and blurs them out. However, I *think* I can see the final cache in the tree that it's supposed to be in!

 

I did solve two out of three stages of a mystery cache using Google Street View. And figured out what the hint meant on another...

 

 

I solved an entire mystery cache with Street View. You had to drive from point A to point B without hitting a stop sign. Did it without using a pint of gasoline.

[+uxorious]

I wouldn't have a clue how to find the post. However, quite a while ago someone posted a Google satellite pic. that showed a car parked near a cache, and a couple people walking toward the the cache. They appeared to be holding something like a GPSr, but of course you couldn't see any of it well enough to more then speculate.

[groundhog123]

I solved an entire mystery cache with Street View. You had to drive from point A to point B without hitting a stop sign. Did it without using a pint of gasoline.

 

WOW, you are so green!

Edited September 19, 2009 by groundhog123

[+moparots]

Google street veiw, caught my mom getting the mail at the mail box in Cocoa Beach.

[+EscapeFromFlatland]

geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

 

I'm taking this as a challenge.

 

 

Does anyone have a watertank, grain silo or rooftop in a populated area of the Puget-Willamette Trough they would donate for placement of the world's largest geocoin?

[Odyssey Voyager]

geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

 

I'm taking this as a challenge.

 

 

Does anyone have a watertank, grain silo or rooftop in a populated area of the Puget-Willamette Trough they would donate for placement of the world's largest geocoin?

 

i think i see where you are going with this!

[+Vater_Araignee]

geocoins are too small to show up on Google Earth.

 

I'm taking this as a challenge.

 

 

Does anyone have a watertank, grain silo or rooftop in a populated area of the Puget-Willamette Trough they would donate for placement of the world's largest geocoin?

I had two thoughts.

#1 I could plow one then plant shrubs (I see them free in craigslist frequently)

#2 Make it a virtual coin using Cache placements. Technically it could be viewed from Google Earth.

[+ecanderson]

 

what is the best or easiest way to capture a still frame from one the google maps street images?

A simple screen / selected-area grabber of any sort. I have a fondness for the flexibility of one called AnyCapture.

[+Vater_Araignee]

 

what is the best or easiest way to capture a still frame from one the google maps street images?

A simple screen / selected-area grabber of any sort. I have a fondness for the flexibility of one called AnyCapture.

got one simpler for you.

Hit the print screen key.

open paint (or any image editor) and past it in.

crop it and save it.

[+ecanderson]

 

what is the best or easiest way to capture a still frame from one the google maps street images?

A simple screen / selected-area grabber of any sort. I have a fondness for the flexibility of one called AnyCapture.

got one simpler for you.

Hit the print screen key.

open paint (or any image editor) and past it in.

crop it and save it.

Simpler, no. Cheaper, yes. AnyCapture lets you select just what you want the first time. It does have a nominal shareware charge, though.

[+Vater_Araignee]

 

what is the best or easiest way to capture a still frame from one the google maps street images?

A simple screen / selected-area grabber of any sort. I have a fondness for the flexibility of one called AnyCapture.

got one simpler for you.

Hit the print screen key.

open paint (or any image editor) and past it in.

crop it and save it.

Simpler, no. Cheaper, yes. AnyCapture lets you select just what you want the first time. It does have a nominal shareware charge, though.

let me guess.

Unlike paint, you have to find it, download it and install it.

Like paint you have to open it up.

Then you have to set it up to run with a hot key or click a start capture button.

Then you have to select the area you want to capture where as with paint you select the area you want to keep.

Come to think of it, they are neck and neck discounting finding, downloading and installing.

Wanna know something funny? I use Paint Shop Pro to take screen shots.

It lets me do area, client area, window, object or full screen.

I can start it with a click, a hot key or set a timer.

It will also do multiple captures, and timed multi caps as fast a 1/10 a second.

 

sorry, thread jack done.

[+sdkonkle]

This looks like a bunch of army guys geocaching.

 

Google streetview

[+TerraViators]

I believe there was a Google Street View image posted a few months ago that showed the cachers holding the cache. I believe the CO confirmed it.

[+Coldgears]

http://maps.google.dk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=da&geocode=&q=nyhavn&sll=55.679932,12.591169&sspn=0.003,0.009645&ie=UTF8&radius=0.19&rq=1&ev=p&hq=nyhavn&hnear=&ll=55.680004,12.58912&spn=0,359.986267&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=55.679718,12.591774&panoid=Oq_BSBcb7V9vs3VNrG8v7Q&cbp=12,263.92,,1,13.73

[+Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat]

http://maps.google.dk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=da&geocode=&q=nyhavn&sll=55.679932,12.591169&sspn=0.003,0.009645&ie=UTF8&radius=0.19&rq=1&ev=p&hq=nyhavn&hnear=&ll=55.680004,12.58912&spn=0,359.986267&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=55.679718,12.591774&panoid=Oq_BSBcb7V9vs3VNrG8v7Q&cbp=12,263.92,,1,13.73

 

Drat! I was just about to post that picture, well, here it is anyway:

 

I once saw the Google Streetview car as we were driving on the highway. I've checked the location, but it seems that it used other pictures.

[+narcissa]

Somehow put this in the wrong thread entirely. Oops!

Edited January 17, 2011 by narcissa

[+Dgwphotos]

This looks like a bunch of army guys geocaching.

 

Google streetview

 

It definitely does! Particularly after looking on the cache page.

 

For those using Windows 7 or Vista, the Snipping Tool is a good screen capture tool. Unfortunately, it's not available for XP.

[+BKip]

I do believe I found where the GoogleSpyMobile caught a cacher in action.

The cache GC1CVW5is in San Diego, Calif.

The red marker indicates Google's zero for the cache location.

[+Dgwphotos]

 

I once saw the Google Streetview car as we were driving on the highway. I've checked the location, but it seems that it used other pictures.

I saw it earlier this week as I was on my way home from work.

[+Ambient_Skater]

For those using Windows 7 or Vista, the Snipping Tool is a good screen capture tool. Unfortunately, it's not available for XP.

The Print Screen button is pretty sick if you're using XP, but it's confusing and takes some experience to use right.

[+Coldgears]

For those using Windows 7 or Vista, the Snipping Tool is a good screen capture tool. Unfortunately, it's not available for XP.

The Print Screen button is pretty sick if you're using XP, but it's confusing and takes some experience to use right.

Usually i'd complain when you bring back an old thread. But this is the third time I literally laughed outloud during the reading of a forum post... Totally worth it!

[+skisidedown]

Well, I was caught by street view. But it was in my driveway, not at a cache. In one view I look right at the car. I can't remember seeing it though...

[knowschad]

I do believe I found where the GoogleSpyMobile caught a cacher in action.

The cache GC1CVW5is in San Diego, Calif.

The red marker indicates Google's zero for the cache location.

 

Is there a geocache at those coordinates? Its hard to say these days if somebody is looking at a GPSr or a cellphone/smartphone. And even if they are looking at a smartphone, are they geocaching, or texting? But if there is indeed a cache at that spot, nice catch!

 

EDIT: Nevermind... I didn't see your link!

Edited August 26, 2011 by knowschad

[7rxc]

Thought it was interesting how they just pop into existence for just one pic out of the series... Never new they edited the pics that much... I do know they used multiple versions of the pics, and several views. But to include the one frame that has someone in it?

 

hmmmm?

 

Doug 7rxc

[+Chief301]

So much for stealth...way to go, you were spotted by 5 billion muggles

[+Tyros]

Take a look at The Mysterious Man...

 

Short description: No cache at these coords, but one may spot a Mysterious Man...

 

I saw the car driving by and tried to be in the picture several times, only this location was published.

[+Harry Dolphin]

 

Well, my sister wasn't geocaching, but she is a geocacher. Google Streets car pulled off to the side of the road to take her picture as she drove by.