+youhideweseek Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Hello Cachers, Can someone tell me how to search for caches along a particular route (i.e., when taking a road trip)? Thanks in advance for any help! youhideweseek Quote Link to comment
+T.D.M.22 Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 (edited) go to CLICK HERE near the top, above the map you have some tabs. Search for Existing Routes Search by Keyword Create New Route Upload a Route Select the third. Try CLICK HEREfor detailed instructions Edited July 12, 2012 by T.D.M.22 Quote Link to comment
+Team Dennis Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I just started using the "caches along a route" feature last year and it works pretty good, but always remember to check the route it gives you against the one you will actually be taking. Sometimes it will give you the short route which might be a considerable distance away from the route you actually take. When you are on the map page you can click on the route and drag the highlighted portion to the roads you will actually take. Quote Link to comment
+youhideweseek Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 Thank you for the replies! I'm off to try it out. Quote Link to comment
+JohnCNA Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 If your 'route' is really hiking trails and not along roads, you can build a 'path' in Google Earth that is completely manual and does not 'snap' to roads like an auto GPS or the web site will. Export your path to KML and you can upload that to the GC web site as your route. I have successfully used this a few times to limit my PQ along a route to follow a particular hiking path, not roads. I limited the search to +/- .1mi to limit being distracted by the occasional nearby urban hides. Quote Link to comment
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