+dcigary Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Anyone know of a Google Earth script / program that displays the real-time cache finds like they have on the big monitor at The Lilly Pad? It would make a great screen saver. I'd make one myself, but I'm not programming literate enough to make something like that. I guess one could just go to the "recent finds" page and run down the links in a script, but I'm sure there's a better way. Oh, did I mention it would make a great screen saver? /just sayin' Quote Link to comment
+dcigary Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 You mean nobody has thought of this? Ok, then, Lackeys and/or Groundspeak techies - care to explain how that display in the Lillypad's lobby runs? Inquiring minds, etc.... Quote Link to comment
+jacob501 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 This would be awesome...if anybody responds I'm totally going to do it! Thanks for the great idea! Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Without violating the TOS agreement - you would need access to the real time data - not possible right now. Quote Link to comment
+GeoGeeBee Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 How about this: Set up a google earth map and randomly blink little "found" lights at various spots every <randnum> seconds. The result would be indistinguishable from a map that is actually showing caches being found in real time. Quote Link to comment
+dcigary Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 Without violating the TOS agreement - you would need access to the real time data - not possible right now. I guess I couldn't just get the info from the "latest logs" screen, as that would be screen scraping, another TOS No-No. Oh well. Hopefully with the API coming soon out there will be an option! Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 It's not very 'real time'...keeps scrolling the same 10-15 items. Quote Link to comment
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