Google earth Plugin?! (1 Viewer)

[eggz2004]

I know that someone mentioned this possibility in the forum of making such a plugin, like MCE have it, but i couldn´t find any news of it...

Does it exist, or some other plugin that allows to "surfing the world" with a remote inside MP using google earth?

Thanks

 

[SpiffBB]

Could just agree, would be a nice plugin. Here is some instructions of how it works in MCE 2005:
http://dotnet.org.za/colin/archive/2005/07/28/40397.aspx
And here is how it looks:
http://savage.org.za/GMAPMCE/
Regards
Oscar

 

[overture]

Looks great SpiffBB! Hopefully someone will give it a go.

 

[zswman]

Wow - usually I am against these sort of non-TV/IPTV/Video/Music/etc., plugins, but this would be fantastic. It must work w/ the MCE remote, however, as the idea of being able to tour the world from a reclining position on the couch really appeals at deep, deep level ;-)

 

[stormbringer]

Well - you could start for example IE in kiosk-mode with this start page and you could use or define your controlls. it works.
If you have mce on your system you could use auto-it to create *.exe from mcl-files and start them as an external Prog.

give it a try

Storm

 

[mikael]

This is one of mine dream plugin, is someone working on this?

 

[MJGraf]

Unfortunately I have one of those jobs that doesn't let me do some programming after work anymore... But this would really be a great plugin if someone volunteers.

Just as a hint: I read somewhere on a German website that Google Maps has pictures in more detail than it reveals on its maps.google.com site. E.g. if you zoom into Frankfurt the slider stops at this level:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...12212,8.684349&spn=0.001159,0.003374&t=k&om=1

(you get this url by clicking on "url to this page" in the upper right corner of maps.google.com)

In this url there is a zoom-factor - in this case "z=19". If you change this to another value by hand after copying it into your explorer, you can reach a zoom level of up to 21 for Frankfurt. I can remember that there are places (can't remeber which unfortunately) where you can reach a zoom of up to 24 and thereby seeing the faces of people.

Funny but somehow scary, too...

cheers,

Michael

 

[zag2me]

Would be a very cool plugin.

Google earth is going to be very very big in the future.

 

[phil123]

Hi,

I was also impressed of the idea of using GoogleEarth on my HTPC.

I solved it without any additional plugin - I haven't all the features, but it's okay ...

I did it this way:
Install EasyApps-Plugin
Create a new Application in Easy-Apps-Configuration
-> as Application use iexplorer.exe file (with full path)
-> for parameters use: "-k http://savage.org.za/GMAPMCE/"

Philipp

 

[allanp81]

How does it present itself within mediaportal?