Having trouble finding the correct elements on Google maps web page

[Chrisy]

Hi everyone, I am writing a VB.Net program that uses Google Maps to show the GPS position.
I am having trouble finding the correct elements to input the Latitude and Longitude to on the search panel.
Below in my code, which comes up with an error, I think it is because I have the wrong elements:

Can anybody help me on this one?


Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
WebBrowser1.Navigate("www.google.com/maps")
End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("searchboxinput").SetAttribute("searchboxinput.value", textbox1.Text)
End Sub
End Class

[kfcSmitty]

Is there a particular reason you need to use the search bar and don't just append the coordinates to the querystring like below?

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/38°42'05.0"N+9°09'48.3"W

[techgnome]

I was wonderin the same thing... just pass the cooridinates direclty via the querystirng.


-tg

[Chrisy]

Thank you so much for that advice, of course that's the way to do it.
Is there anyway I can automatically make the image go straight to satellite image instead of map?
I also sometimes get a: "do you want to continue to run scripts" message, is there anyway to stop this from appearing?

[kfcSmitty]

I believe for Google maps, you can add "?t=k" to force satellite view.

So the URL would become:

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/38°42'05.0"N+9°09'48.3"W?t=k

As for the allowing scripts, which browser is causing the issue? The only browsers I know that prompt for basic javascript are the older versions of IE, or any IE with tight security permission.

You could also look into using the Google Maps embed API: https://developers.google.com/maps/d...on/embed/guide