Thanks John!
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Installing third part ActiveX controls in Delphi 2007 > Hi Rich, > > I came across something similar in dot net, on CodeProject. Basically it > shows you how to translate the lat/long into google map grid > co-ordinates, and then use those to grab the section of map that you want. > > Here's the link: > > http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/googlemap.asp > > It's not Delphi, but the principle applies :) > > Good luck with it! > > John. > > ------------------------ > >> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:40:42 -0800 >> From: "Rich Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Installing third part ActiveX controls in Delphi 2007 >> >> I'm using D7 on XP HE and I am trying to write a program >> that shows IP addresses (already done) so that I can click >> on them (already done) and display a map of the area (that's >> what still needs to be done) where the IP is located. >> >> The present build is getting the textual <lat,long> specification of >> an IP address based on searching a table of IPs. When I >> go to <Google | Maps>, I can manually paste the <lat,long> into >> the box and get a nice map from Google, but not in just one >> window. Instead, I get a bunch of extraneous material at the >> top and left, and just the map in the bottom right of the window. >> I've tried looking at the HTML text (using view | source) but I don't >> get a clear idea of how to extract just the map window to display >> in my application. >> >> For example, here is an IP address and its lat long: >> >> 194.117.22.137 38.723, -9.133 >> >> and when I key or paste that lat long into Google Maps, I get >> a nice image of a town in Portugal near Lisbon. Ideally, I would >> like to embed a TWebBrowser in my application, and steer it >> to the map, but the present Google response is >> >> http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q= >> >> which doesn't have the lat, long physically embedded in the URL. >> Also, the portion of the image that I want to embed in my app has >> a map on the bottom right of the browser window, and extraneous >> material on the top and left sides. >> >> I've looked for places in the source that describe the window of >> interest, but I haven't found anything that seems to do the trick of >> capturing just the map info. It wouldn't hurt to also capture the >> pan and zoom buttons and the scale, which are on the same image >> as the map, but the HTML might as well be in greek. >> >> I also tried Mapquest, but I can't get <lat,long> maps from that one. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas that might lead to capturing the map >> of an arbitrary <lat, long> specification in a window by itself? >> >> Thanks, >> Rich > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
