Video Tutorial: Create Pocket Queries Along a Customized Route
OK…this is confessions of a GEOJunkie…so there should be some Geocaching stuff, yes?
Here’s my first Geocaching oriented post. It’s a tutorial generated using Jing that will help a geocacher generate Pocket Queries to find caches along a customized route. I discovered this while dealing with the frustrations of Google Earth vs. Google Maps. The problem is, Google Earth is the only program that will output a KML file that the Geocaching web site likes, but it will only do a basic route. You can’t tailor it to go to different areas, like Google Maps will let you do. So…using this technique, you can generate routes in Google Maps, with the full customization available, then open the route in Google Earth so that it can be exported to geocaching.com.
A summary of the steps:
1. Use maps.google.com to produce the route
2. Right-click on “Link” and copy the link
3. Paste the link in your address bar and add “&output=kml” to the end
4. Open the resulting file in Google Earth
5. Save the Route portion to a new KML file
6. Upload KML file from Google Earth to geocaching.com using “Find Caches Along a Route”
7. Create a Pocket Query from the Route
8. GO CACHING!
Hope this helps!
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