Charlie Owen - Google Maps on Your Media Center PC

Sunday, January 22, 2006

I wish I had seen this sooner (my apologies -- if you see this kind of cool stuff, drop me an email directly). Kudos to Colin for putting together GMAPMCE whereby you can browse Google Maps from the comfort of your couch. This is more addictive than I thought. This post explains how to get it available from More Programs in Media Center.

Anyone created one of these for http://local.live.com yet...?

Update: Yes, someone did and I feel just horrible I didn't pick up on it from Ian Dixon (to whom I susbcribe). Sean Mcleod put together an app which can be correlated with your geo-tagged pictures from the My Pictures feature in Media Center. Sweet. The app and details (including some source 'how to' snippets) can be found at Virtual Earth Media Center Add-in (The Code Project). Sean hasn't posted since November 10 -- hope everything is all right.

Categories: Media Center | Media Center Application Design | Virtual Earth | Comments [4] |

| Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:40:28 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Monday, January 23, 2006 8:35:19 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Thanks for the link. Yes, someone has created one for virtualearth

http://spaces.msn.com/members/seanmcleod/Blog/cns!1pC_K0hKOTPOd-hSoTxSOeeQ!122.entry

Colin

Monday, January 23, 2006 9:52:20 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

yes, as the other comment says Sean Mcleod did one a while ago, I talked about it on the show at the time.
This google one looks good too.

Ian

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:29:17 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I'm fine thanks, just haven't posted to my blog recently.

But since my last blog posting I have updated the article and source code at CodeProject to make use of the new V2 version of the Virtual Earth control. Another to do item now is to add an option for the "Bird's Eye" option.

In addition to invoking my Virtual Earth MCE plug-in from the 'My Pictures' section via geo-coded pictures you can also invoke it from the 'More Programs' section if you just want to browse around the world.

P.S
I see that GMAPMCE was also developed by a South African ;-)

Sean McLeod

Monday, February 20, 2006 8:09:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I don't know your email so I'll drop the latest mce gimmick link here ( feel free to delete this )
http://dotnet.org.za/colin/archive/2006/02/20/50295.aspx

Colin

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