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| − | [http://earth.google.com Google Earth]
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| − | [http://www.googleearthhacks.com/ Google Earth Hacks]
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| − | == How To's ==
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| − | === Change the default view on startup ===
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| − | # Open Google Earth
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| − | # Under Places, right-click on default > Edit
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| − | # Tick Advanced checkbox
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| − | # Click Location tab
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| − | # Tick Center Placemark in View
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| − | # Click View tab
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| − | # Whilst Edit Placemark window is open, navigate as usual to the default view you want
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| − | # Click Snapshot current view when satisfied with view
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| − | # Click Advanced checkbox
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| − | # Click OK
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| − | # Under the Tools menu, Click Options
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| − | # Click Control tab
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| − | # Move the Fly-To/Tour speed setting to Fast.
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| − | # Click OK
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| − | # Close Google Earth and restart
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| − | === Store More Maps On Your Hard Drive ===
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| − | To make more of the maps stay cached on your computer, and not downloaded in the future you need to modify the Cache settings: -
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| − | # Click Tools -> Options > Cache tab
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| − | # Change Disk Cache size to the maximum allowed value.
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| − | === Track Travel Bugs ===
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| − | This interesting GreaseMonkey script tracks [[Travel bugs]] on Google Earth. The thread is available [http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=103162 here]. There is a direct link to the [http://files.dixo.net/geocachingtbtracker.user.js script here], and a [http://files.dixo.net/geocachingtbtracker.jpg sample image] is also available. | |
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| − | === Load Waypoints from the Internet ===
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| − | Google Earth can load waypoints from websites on the Internet. The network link allows Google Earth to display caches in real-time - no gpx files to download or convert, just scroll around and it talks to our server and downloads the nearby caches.
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| − | To try it out, click [http://geocaching.com.au/xml/googleearth/geocaches.kml here] and zoom to your favourite location and you should see caches pop up like magic!
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| − | === View GSAK Caches in Google Earth ===
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| − | Here is a macro [[User:Riblit]] wrote to plot caches in Google Earth, using GSAK and GPSBabel.
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| − | <pre>
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| − | SET $Bable = "C:\Program Files\GSAK\GPSBabel.exe"
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| − | SET $Gearth = "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth Plus\googleearth.exe"
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| − | SET $temp = "C:\Program Files\GSAK\temp\"
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| − | SET $tfile = $temp + "test.kml"
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| − | SET $ifile = $temp + "babel.gpx"
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| − | FILTER name="userset"
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| − | EXPORT type=GPX File="$ifile"
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| − | RUNPGM PGM="$Bable" parms= -i gpx -f "$ifile" -o kml -F "$tfile" Wait=Yes
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| − | RUNPGM PGM="$Gearth" parms="$tfile"
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| − | end_____________
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| − | </pre>
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| − | [[User: Riblit]] runs a filter to get the caches down to a manageable level, mine just filters caches he has checked. If you don't want a filter, delete the FILTER name ="userset" line
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| − | The variables will be ok for a default GSAK and Google Earth install. Copy and paste the code into GSAK's macro editor and save, add a button if you like.
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