Geocaching goes Google Earth

In the past I’ve tried to open the GPX Files from Geocaching.com in Google Earth. That works so far but for some reason all the coordinates were out of whack. Caches where off their real position by 10 to 20 km. Therefore GE was useless for that part. Yesterday I opened my GC.com account page and noticed that they made some changes. The information on the right is now more structured and divided into areas. Then my eye caught "Google Earth Mapping Feature". Curiosity won and I clicked on the Link "Google Cache Browser". GE opened and little icons appeared showing where caches are and even showing the type of the cache. How cool is that! Even more the coordinates fit and if you click on the icons, you get the cache’s short description and a link.

I have been not to happy about what GC.com did over the last few weeks, but that makes up for everything. Awesome job guys!!

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