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Buzzygirl · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

RinoShawn: Thanks for pointing me to Maporama... I've been looking for a mapping site that would do this.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html for some more indepth discussion on how maps.google.com works behind the scenes.
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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138893&cid=11622598

Perhaps you can decypher and use that rickrich? Fuzzy owns.
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KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000917034960/

A tutorial on mapping your own points of interest on Google. Think I'll play with this a bit and see if I can make one up.

GPSr · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

I sent them a suggestion about lat/lon too. I did notice that a few small parks don't show up. That's why it's a good idea to check more than one resource.

5savages · Geocacher Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 204

towlebooth · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:59 am Post subject:

A month ago I read somewhere (here?) that google bought a digital map and satellite imaging company, Keyhole. I was hoping that someday they would incorporate the imagery into google maps. It happened yesterday. Go to an address or coord and hit the Satellite link at the upper right.

Not exactly sure what year these are from, but they look newer than others I've seen. The copyright 2005 is meaningless. Based on construction of Phalen Blvd I would guess that the East St. Paul area images are only 3-4 years old.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Also, I talked to wf_fuzzy (he works on GPSbabel) and he has incorporated code into GPSBabel CVS that allows for routes to be downloaded from maps.google.com. While it's not for the masses yet it is pretty neat:

For those of us that don't run Windows:

5savages · Geocacher Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 204

towlebooth · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

Rickrich figured this out on day one and now the mainstream [internet] press catches on:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/google_map_hacks;_ylt=AmodATNKIFHaYqJ6kYcVAygDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

IBcrashen · Geocacher Joined: 17 Dec 2002 Posts: 244 Location: Duluth

For Firefox I have been using this I picked up on the gc boards on this topic.

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=95294&hl=greasemonkey

here is the main part of it.

" If anyone wants Google Maps / Satellite links in gc.com right now, and you use Firefox, then you can install http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ which allows pages to be modified before your browser displays them.

Once you've got Greasemonkey, install my map linking script from: http://files.dixo.net/GeocachingMapLinker.user.js (right click that link and choose "Install User Script")"

It puts the link right under the coords. It also puts a link to near by caches on the map page ( I think this script did it) which takes you back to gc.

knowschad · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/

Check it out!! Very Happy

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jaywc7 · Geocacher Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 360

Indeed neat... I like it, but don't expect to quit using Streets & Trips any time soon. Are there benefits I'm overlooking?

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Streets and Trips is 2D and Google Earth is 3D?
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