Google Earth Cache: How much can I store offline? Plus...

[demonboy]

I've managed to get my GPS position displayed in Google Earth but now I'm wanting to fill up my cache with as much detailed imagery as possible. Actually what I am trying to do is load up as much of the Red Sea as possible. I've stripped out all data layers so I only store the image.

Does anyone have any idea how much I can store? Just the canal? The whole of the Red Sea? 100nm? Is there a rule of thumb I can use based upon 2Gb of cache? Is there a way of capturing an entire area in one go, rather than having to zoom in on each place individually?

I've no idea but it's something I'd like to explore so if anyone can help I'd be very grateful.

Oh, and has anyone successfully overlaid google earth with maxsea or some other such combination?

 

[cnh]

Why not capture each screen and paste into an image editor? You don't need high resolution for all the Red Sea; merely the tricky bits.

 

[demonboy]

Well that is an alternative, though it wouldn't allow me to track in real time via a GPS. I suppose one possibility is to do as you say, give it a transparency of 20% and then over-lay into Maxsea, if this is possible (hence the second part of my question).

 

[miko]

Hi, have a look online for a Google Earth caching program called 'GECacheBldr'. You can give it a Lat/Long, define the extent of your area of interest, fire up GE and GECacheBldr will generate a .kml file of the defined area.

 

[demonboy]

Hi Miko. On paper that sounds like the ticket but it looks like it still needs to be online as it wants to update the kml file... unless I've misinterpreted that?

 

[jmac]

You can adjust the size if the cache in Google Earth. Just increase it till your hard drive is full /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

 

[demonboy]

No, Google Earth's cache limit is 2Gb. Or are you referring to GECacheBldr?

 

[jmac]

Oh bum! Sorry!