Great for cheating on geocaching :) you can enter latitude / longitude in google maps. MIN DEC (minute decimal) format seems to be OK with google.

You can literally copy/paste the coordinates into google maps from geocaching.com.

example: N 33° 04.422 W 117° 16.382

(Also helpful, use geocode.com to convert from street address to latitude / longitude coordinates. Then geocaching.com can search nearby that location.)

updated 8/8/05
Here's an example of how to direct URL link into Google Maps. You can see this from the "link to this page" link on the top right.

This is with lat/long coords:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.1051+-117.30523

This is with street address:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6464+pyrus+pl,+92009 (this will use default zoom settings)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6464+pyrus+pl,+92009&ll=33.125188,-117.289696&spn=0.094100,0.158512&hl=en
(this will have the exact zoom/location settings you had when you copied the link)

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