See the cache in Google Street View

5.2k · January 15, 2013

I just published a new Greasemonkey script that adds a Google Street View image of the cache location (if one is available) to the cache page.

The tooltip on the icon shows the name of the cache (or waypoint) and the distance from the viewer (the Street View car). This can be configured to show in meters or feet. Click on the gear icon above the map to set this and other options.

If there are additional waypoints, or corrected coordinates, they are all shown on the map, and are scaled appropriately with distance in the Street View.

The map and the Street View image are linked together. Moving one is reflected on the other.

You can also click on the "Full" button at the top to view the same map(s) in the full browser window.

This script works in both Firefox with Greasemonkey and Google Chrome with Tampermonkey.

Install the script

January 15, 2013

Very cool! Thanks!

January 15, 2013

I just installed it...that is SO cool! Thanks a million!

January 16, 2013

Thank you!

It works perfect.

7.5k · January 16, 2013

Sweeeet. Thank you very much.

January 16, 2013

thank you!!

2.2k · January 16, 2013

Amazing! (Again.) Thanks!

January 16, 2013

Very nice! This is going to be very beneficial in the future. Thank you!

1.1k · January 16, 2013

there has been a list of caches clearly visible on street view,

where is that ?

some even showed geocachers sitting and signing the log,

one of the best was in copenhagen nyhavn I think.

amazing tool :-)

January 17, 2013

This is seriously awesome. I love your geocaching scripts, and this is another one that I am using now.

January 21, 2013

Works great. Thanks so much.

Edited January 21, 2013 by Keystone

1.1k · January 21, 2013

with this ? people dont need a GPS anymore :-)

ok at least not for some of them located close to a road

3.7k · January 21, 2013

That is totally awesome! Thank you so much!

January 22, 2013

Very nice. Took me awhile to determine that it's on the cache page, rather than part of the map page on geocaching.com (I kept looking for the little street view man to be there).

January 22, 2013

Very nice. Took me awhile to determine that it's on the cache page, rather than part of the map page on geocaching.com (I kept looking for the little street view man to be there).

If possible, please point me to the location on the cache page. Thanks.

January 22, 2013

What an awesome tool! Thank you very much for your work on these. I never knew these scripts existed, and so have installed Greasemonkey and a few of the scripts. This script works perfectly! Looking forward to updates on some of the others. Not everything in "Bag-o-Tricks" and "Friends List Enhancements" works for me.

January 23, 2013

I spend a lot of time going back and forth between GC.Com and google maps for the street views--thank you SO much! This is a huge timesaver for me! (Not to mention how many caches next to houses I can now avoid BEFORE I drive there! )

5.2k · January 24, 2013

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. I'm glad y'all find this useful.

Not everything in "Bag-o-Tricks" and "Friends List Enhancements" works for me.

Those two, as well as VIP List are due for an update. Sometimes things break when the website is updated. They should all be updated in the coming weeks.

January 24, 2013

Works seamlessly with Firefox. Thanks!

5k · January 31, 2013

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. I'm glad y'all find this useful.

Not everything in "Bag-o-Tricks" and "Friends List Enhancements" works for me.

Those two, as well as VIP List are due for an update. Sometimes things break when the website is updated. They should all be updated in the coming weeks.

I notice that I can close the street view pane and get a bigger map, but it's hard to get it back, (you have to drag pegman to the exact perfect spot). Is there anyway to make this a toggle, and if so, perhaps give an option to have it default to on or off?

The biggest thing that I miss from the old scripts is, of course, the VIP list. That was probably the coolest thing I ever saw. I could see in an instant who of the major players in our group had found a particular cache I was looking at.

What I have been missing recently is the Email link next to the cache owner's name on the cache pages. I think that was in Bag-o-Tricks, and was very handy when I needed to contact someone about a particular cache.

Thanks, your work is appreciated...

5.2k · January 31, 2013

I notice that I can close the street view pane and get a bigger map, but it's hard to get it back, (you have to drag pegman to the exact perfect spot). Is there anyway to make this a toggle, and if so, perhaps give an option to have it default to on or off?

On the road or aerial photo map, just click on the cache icon.

The biggest thing that I miss from the old scripts is, of course, the VIP list. That was probably the coolest thing I ever saw. I could see in an instant who of the major players in our group had found a particular cache I was looking at.

What I have been missing recently is the Email link next to the cache owner's name on the cache pages. I think that was in Bag-o-Tricks, and was very handy when I needed to contact someone about a particular cache.

I should have an update to Bag-o-Tricks out shortly. VIP List will follow in a few weeks. It's a much bigger project to get it all working again.

5k · February 1, 2013

I notice that I can close the street view pane and get a bigger map, but it's hard to get it back, (you have to drag pegman to the exact perfect spot). Is there anyway to make this a toggle, and if so, perhaps give an option to have it default to on or off?

On the road or aerial photo map, just click on the cache icon.

Duh! That was easy.

February 1, 2013

I notice that I can close the street view pane and get a bigger map, but it's hard to get it back, (you have to drag pegman to the exact perfect spot). Is there anyway to make this a toggle, and if so, perhaps give an option to have it default to on or off?

On the road or aerial photo map, just click on the cache icon.

Duh! That was easy.

still can not figure this out. does this work in google crome?

5.2k · February 1, 2013

still can not figure this out. does this work in google crome?

Yes, this script works in Chrome with the Tampermonkey extension.

What, exactly, are you having problems with?

February 1, 2013

still can not figure this out. does this work in google crome?

Yes, this script works in Chrome with the Tampermonkey extension.

What, exactly, are you having problems with?

i keep getting script errors when i try to download and start it

5.2k · February 1, 2013

i keep getting script errors when i try to download and start it

Please post the errors here.

2.3k · February 21, 2013

This stopped working for me a few days ago. FF19.0/W7.

February 21, 2013

I just updated to FF19.0 and it still works for me. I'm on W7 also.

5.2k · February 21, 2013

Hmmm. I just got the alert this morning for FF19. I'll have to update and see what happens....

February 21, 2013

Looks like there may be bugs with FF 19.0 because not even the GC website is working properly for me anymore. I click on the search icon beside my home coords and the page refreshes to the very same page. Not a list of caches in my area. Also when I click on the Install script button all it does is take me to a page where I can view the script. My FF 19.0 is messed up. I am running XP Home service pack 3. Oh well, back to my old stand by of IE 8.

5k · February 21, 2013

Looks like there may be bugs with FF 19.0 because not even the GC website is working properly for me anymore. I click on the search icon beside my home coords and the page refreshes to the very same page. Not a list of caches in my area. Also when I click on the Install script button all it does is take me to a page where I can view the script. My FF 19.0 is messed up. I am running XP Home service pack 3. Oh well, back to my old stand by of IE 8.

I've been using FF 19 for the last three days and I haven't seen any of these issues.

Edit to add: XPSP3

Edited February 21, 2013 by Don_J

February 22, 2013

Thats odd, because I just checked again and not even the maps load in FF 19. Is the GC site dependent on Java script in anyway? I do have java disabled because of the recent serious security loophole with java.

5.2k · February 22, 2013

Java and JavaScript are not related in any way, except similarity in name. Java is not used by the website, but JavaScript is very much needed. Java is a plugin that you can enable and disable (and upgrade). JavaScript is built in to your browser.

February 22, 2013

Looks like it installed. I will check.

Confirmed as now working! Cool! Thanks!

Edited February 22, 2013 by TeamPennyFinder

February 22, 2013

I had JS disabled also on top of Java disabled. I enabled JS and left Java disabled.

1.3k · February 22, 2013

Installs OK in Opera and I can see the options...but no Street View man

I have a feeling it's because I've also installed GME? Anyone have both working.....

February 22, 2013

I just published a new Greasemonkey script that adds a Google Street View image of the cache location (if one is available) to the cache page.

The tooltip on the icon shows the name of the cache (or waypoint) and the distance from the viewer (the Street View car). This can be configured to show in meters or feet. Click on the gear icon above the map to set this and other options.

If there are additional waypoints, or corrected coordinates, they are all shown on the map, and are scaled appropriately with distance in the Street View.

The map and the Street View image are linked together. Moving one is reflected on the other.

You can also click on the "Full" button at the top to view the same map(s) in the full browser window.

This script works in both Firefox with Greasemonkey and Google Chrome with Tampermonkey.

Install the script

thats awesome! thanks

March 22, 2014

Does this work with GME?

March 22, 2014

Not sure if those still work. Just Installed on both, Chrome and FF, but no street view on cache page...

October 21, 2014

Not the cache, but I think Street View caught some cachers.

I was bookmarking http://coord.info/GC19GDF to get during my trip and went to street view to make sure I'd recognize the area. I'm pretty sure that if you look at the spot in front of the barn, then turn right so the barn is on your left, and then "walk" backwards away from it, you'll see a couple of people in a car just sitting in front of the spot. The car is in the same spot for an awfully long time. I'd bet that the google car caught a couple of geocachers trying to solve the first stage of the cache. Pretty cool.

3.6k · October 23, 2014

That looks cool and I will add it when I get home. Question Lil Devil. Not sure if it is the bag o' tricks but when I am in the GC site sometimes the scripts work and in some of the pages it stops working but the script is on the whole time.

October 23, 2014

You won't, jellis. I want to try it as well but I've just found out this script is located on userscripts.org, which has been shut down some time ago.

3.3k · October 24, 2014

with this ? people dont need a GPS anymore :-)

ok at least not for some of them located close to a road

True. I didn't even need street view for one LPC in a parking lot. The posts were far enough apart on the asphalt desert that the satellite image told me where the cache was.

Now deep in the forest is another story. Sat view is worthless, and street view doesn't exist.

October 25, 2014

There are caches hidden in the forest?!?!

15.5k · October 25, 2014

There are caches hidden in the forest?!?!

Yeah, go figure. The caches I found on my first day were all in a redwood forest. Of course, 3 of the 4 have since been archived. But that last one has a 29% Favorites ratio...

3.6k · October 25, 2014

You won't, jellis. I want to try it as well but I've just found out this script is located on userscripts.org, which has been shut down some time ago.

Actually it is found on GC Waypoint finder

Just trying to find out why some pages it works and some don't

22.2k · October 25, 2014

Street view is not available at all locations (deep in the woods, rural roads never traveled by the GoogleMobile, etc.). If there is no street view imagery close to the cache then nothing will be shown via the Greasemonkey script.

3.6k · October 25, 2014

For some reason I can't get the script to install. I click on the link and a time out comes on with the install script notice on the top of the page. I clicked on that but there is no sign of it in the Manage Script.

Edited October 25, 2014 by jellis

22.2k · October 25, 2014

Install the script from LilDevil's site, here: http://www.lildevil.org/greasemonkey/street-view

3.6k · October 25, 2014

Ok but that is doing the same thing.

See the cache in Google Street View

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