Reading Google Earths Memory

[dsheller]

Basically all I want to do is be able to point the cursor somehwere in google earth's window and have it tell me the Longitude and Latitude of where I clicked... nothing bad. However, I have no idea where to start! If anyone could be of assistance that would be great.

[shirazamod]

I think you would have to subclass the part of Google Earth that gives you the longitude & latitude and then get the caption of that.
You'd need extensive use of API so you should maybe post it there.
Good luck!

[dsheller]

The window that google earth uses to render in is one piece, the bar isn't seperate from the rest of the window. Atleast that is what I can gather from Spy++. So the only thing I could think of was to try and find the memory offset where the longitude and latitude are stored... but so far no luck.

[shirazamod]

ooh, seems like its gonna be quite a challenge!

[soconnor]

I'm working on a Google Earth app myself at the moment.

I want to do exactly as the OP said, click on the screen and return the lat/long. This is proving to be an impossible task. 3 years on from this original post I'm just wondering if there is someone out there that could shed some light on this!

Dim GEI As ApplicationGE
Dim Camera As CameraInfoGE
 
 
Set GEI = CreateObject("GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE")
While (GEI.IsInitialized = 0)
Wend
 
Set Camera = GEI.GetCamera(0)
MsgBox "Latitude: " & Camera.FocusPointLatitude & " Longitude: " & Camera.FocusPointLongitude

The above function returns the lat/log of the center of the camera location on Google Earth. Any way to call this at a certain point on the Google Earth maps?
I'm using vb6 and Google Earth v4.2.0205.5730.

Thanks guys.