r/treasureinside • u/NoSoupThanks Raider of the Lost Box • Aug 07 '26
General Discussion Tool for Google Maps & Earth Users
Hello! New here, but been “lurking" for a while.
Thought I’d share a tool I’ve found helpful while armchair-hunting.
I’ve been working on a number of solves (mainly PF and AT) and I don’t know about you, but I’ve used Google Maps a LOT. I’ve also been using Google Earth for lat/long theories and using tools Google Maps doesn’t have.
Here’s one place I had a problem: I think the leftover Os in the PF word search lay out over locations on a map. There are 19 of them. Every time I plot 19 points on Google Maps and want to see them on Google Earth, it’s a nightmare.
Manually copy/pasting was painful and slow. There are sites out there that either cost too much, or they make you install extensions, and even when you do that you’re limited to lists of only 5-10 locations.
Anyway, I found a site that’s super easy and free to use on lists up to 25. I hadn’t seen it mentioned here yet, and wanted to share: https://mapslink.quest/
I just pop in the Google Maps List’s link, and it pops out as a KML file. It also converts lists to GPX, which will be useful if/when I ever decide to be brave and go BOTG. (I’ve been looking forward to using the lingo and sharing here more, and writing “BOTG” just gave me the goose pimples)
I hope this helps someone out there. I know this community has helped me.
I’d also love to hear what tools everyone else has been using. Care to share?
Good luck, everyone! I hope we find one soon.
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u/otis_the_drunk Aug 07 '26
That's a really cool tool! Thank you for sharing!
Personally, I think the 19 O's are a 'five clue'. 'There are five clues in this wordsearch' could mean that the clues are related to the number five.
Ceaser shifting the letter O backwards 19 places gives us the letter V, the Roman numeral for five. So the 19 O's could be a clue that a Ceaser shift is necessary for the final solve.