I love the tilt feature, it was great in planning to place kvom.

Dragging a GPX file onto Google Earth is great; by creating a pocket query you can filter which types of caches to display. Wish we had the ability to drag a GPX file onto Google maps so I could see the roads. Does anyone have a solution to this?

I found this link:
http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/googlegpx/
Individual caches have pushpins but no labels, so it doesn't do much good. Any help appreciated!

Well Google Maps is web based and you rarely can drag files onto a webpage (without enabling some things that most shouldn't have on).

The most common way is the way the website you reference does it.

reepicheep

I can't remember the details about this site, but I had it in my bookmarks.
If it does what you want, let us know:

GPS Visualizer Google Maps

Thanks. Your link does pretty much the same as mine - you have to click on the pushpin to see the detail. I think that the GC feature on Google maps is the best for what I need since it numbers each waypoint and labels it on the side. I just wish I had a way to filter the caches that the map shows...

Don't forget that you can create a route in Google Maps, save the route as a .KML file, upload it to GC.com and create your route filter of caches.

I created one from Knoxville, TN to Lima, OH of 440 miles and filtered 1 mile either side of the interstate to give me 422 caches. Otherwise it would have been SEVERAL PQ's (3500 caches)and a GSAK ARC filter to get the same thing.

I've used both Google and GSAK to get caches along a route and found Google to be much easier because it creates the route used for the filter. With GSAK, you must create a waypoint within the ARC filter at each dogleg in the route. That can be a lot of lat/long look-ups, particularly when you need a long, narrow corridor such as Joebids described.

On the other hand, if you need a custom route then the Google route probably can't be used to create the .KML file.

As I understand what you are saying, Owl, and from my limited experience with both Google and GSAK arcs....... Google is more generic and tends to take the interstate route where I can and have created a customized route through Mapsource and GSAK ??? I know that may sound like a dumb question to those that understand it, but I readily admit my learning in this creeps at the rate of an inch a day.

I found what I was looking for, and it's right there on the GC.com PQ page. Beside each query you get an icon to display the results on Google maps! Just what I was looking for, right under my nose.
WRT GSAK I just downloaded it this week; looking forward to seeing what it can do.

Google Earth has added hiking trails to their maps. After starting Google Earth, expand the Featured Content and choose Trimble Outdoor Trips. The trail content appears to be user-fed and there are coordinates along each trail. Many of my favorite trails are not present yet, like the entire span of the AT in GA, but this is a "step" in the right direction. Lifehacker link to story

I think everyone should look at : Flashearth.com. So far it has kept me straight.