Geocaching Australia

I have a set of coords in a Word file.
Is there an easy way to plot these onto a map? (For example like the map you get when you click on the geocaching.com map.)

Hi Bunya, go to http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/tutorials/waypoints.html here you will find how to create an excel file, take note of the top line of the sheet, with name/lat/long formatting, then you upload the file on the site and it will plot to co-ords for you...

Cheers Gordo

Thanks for that - I'll give it a go.

Can't you just copy and paste into Google Maps ?

Agent Basil wrote:Can't you just copy and paste into Google Maps ?

I tried that and Google Maps hung at the "loading" stage - perhaps I had the wrong input format.

I've got GPS Visualizer working and it's got a good number of options I've yet to fully explore - thanks g_ordo!

If you have GSAK, import them into a database and use the Google Maps macro, it does a great job and very simple to use.
If you haven't got GSAK .....get it!

gmj3191 wrote:If you have GSAK, import them into a database and use the Google Maps macro, it does a great job and very simple to use.
If you haven't got GSAK .....get it!

But what if he is a MacMan? You know, those sensible people unlike those Windows folk.....

lemmykc wrote:

gmj3191 wrote:If you have GSAK, import them into a database and use the Google Maps macro, it does a great job and very simple to use.
If you haven't got GSAK .....get it!

But what if he is a MacMan? You know, those sensible people unlike those Windows folk.....

What wizardry? Crapintosh

akkatracker wrote:

lemmykc wrote:

gmj3191 wrote:If you have GSAK, import them into a database and use the Google Maps macro, it does a great job and very simple to use.
If you haven't got GSAK .....get it!

But what if he is a MacMan? You know, those sensible people unlike those Windows folk.....

What wizardry? Crapintosh

Windows is just a Window look into the past. Something like 1960's technology?

lemmykc wrote:

akkatracker wrote:

lemmykc wrote:

gmj3191 wrote:If you have GSAK, import them into a database and use the Google Maps macro, it does a great job and very simple to use.
If you haven't got GSAK .....get it!

But what if he is a MacMan? You know, those sensible people unlike those Windows folk.....

What wizardry? Crapintosh

Windows is just a Window look into the past. Something like 1960's technology?

He could what you do Liam and run Windows under Basecamp most of the time.
The jig is up.

I'm not sure what you folks are going on about.
Would these things work on my TRS-80?

More seriously - yes, I do have GSAK, but I'm still having fun playing with GPS Visualizer and one new thing per day is enough for me!

gmj3191 wrote:

lemmykc wrote:

akkatracker wrote:

lemmykc wrote:

gmj3191 wrote:If you have GSAK, import them into a database and use the Google Maps macro, it does a great job and very simple to use.
If you haven't got GSAK .....get it!

But what if he is a MacMan? You know, those sensible people unlike those Windows folk.....

What wizardry? Crapintosh

Windows is just a Window look into the past. Something like 1960's technology?

He could what you do Liam and run Windows under Basecamp most of the time.
The jig is up.

I never said GSAK was as bad as Windows! GSAK is the only reason!

I swear I swear!!

Bunya wrote:I'm not sure what you folks are going on about.
Would these things work on my TRS-80?

Please! I've had enough of learning about the the technology of the Industrial Revolution in my Australian History classes at school!

I got gsac to do the export to macro last night, excellent, is there a way to get it show proximity from one point to the next closest?

I also worked out how to get it to strip the gc from the cache codes, so I can load a heap of caches onto my êtrex h. Very happy now!!!

g_ordo wrote:I got gsac to do the export to macro last night, excellent, is there a way to get it show proximity from one point to the next closest?

I also worked out how to get it to strip the gc from the cache codes, so I can load a heap of caches onto my êtrex h. Very happy now!!!

There is a macro for that too! Search 'KML' or 'proximity' or '.10'