Thread: Needed: BETA Testers for Google Earth Plugin

VERY Kewl Gino! Look out Street Deck

Just downloaded to test here on development PC, will see how that goes, and will test in the Car PC as the next stpe. WIll keep you posted along the way

EDIT:

Ok, sor far it's looking pretty good! I have still yet to get it to show my current position, via GPS, but I only started tinkering with it 10 minutes ago. I figgured a screen shot was at least in order

Here is a Video of RR-Google Earth:
(I appolagize for the poor quality, it was recorded with my QuickCam Orbit on a 26" LCD Monitor)

I uploaded another video done with a "Screen Recorder" but it's not much better as YouTube really compresses it, and makes it very pixilated.

HERE is the link to Google Earth Beta 4 (The one on the right side of the screen)

i downloaded this last week when it was first posted on the beta site(i think tuesday'ish) couldnt get it to do anything on my test machine. Has anything been changed since then?

Intresting... does "It is NOT required to have internet in the CarPC, but without it the only feature available will be to display the maps with GPS positioning." mean it has a way off caching ? I'm thinking cache a selected area while at home using broad band then go out driving ??

Terran

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i downloaded this last week when it was first posted on the beta site(i think tuesday'ish) couldnt get it to do anything on my test machine. Has anything been changed since then?

Hell yes, it was very buggy back then, I'm still sorting out one minor issue.

Originally Posted by ccsnet

Intresting... does "It is NOT required to have internet in the CarPC, but without it the only feature available will be to display the maps with GPS positioning." mean it has a way off caching ? I'm thinking cache a selected area while at home using broad band then go out driving ??
Terran

Hell yeah, I've cached my whole town (about 300Mb) and it works awesome.. I do have GPRS in the car (though I leave it disconnected most of the time), but that would be enough to connect and get directions or display a location on GE at reasonable performance -- since the maps are already cached.

You can also cache the maps on one machine and just copy the cache (2 files) onto the CarPC. There's a cache builder application here in the mp3car forums.

Originally Posted by Supergong

hm this is actually the version iam using!! But it does weird things on my lappy....i can enter various addresses in germany and the flyto feature now works ok (had to use the english version) but after the flyto it goes back to a location in usa..Also when i start it from RR it goes to that location and zooms in!!! Routing and directions dont work up to now( iam testing with diffrent settings in GoogleEarth). Perhaps i´ll make a video cause iam confused why this happens..?!?
Supergong

Edit: ok i turned off gps and so it doesnt return to a destination in usa (stupido supergong). But i can enter a 1. address and can push flyto(works) then enter a 2. address and push flyto(works) but then if i press directions googleearth says it doesnt find results for my search??? why, cause the flyto feature works, so google knows the addresses !?! So no planning of a route-> no showroute,no play/pause etc.

If you don't want it to zoom into the GPS position you should turn OFF the gps display -- you can edit the NET.KML.INI to where it doesn't fly-to-view automatically (set it to 0 -- Zero). Depending on how far you are from the location, it would be usefull to zoom into the location and return to the GPS position, that's why I left it that way. If you don't want it to return to the GPS position you should just toggle it off until you're done.

The main use for this plugin is the GPS display. Now, I can't guarantee the GPS directions will work, it does require internet.. I would think that if you can fly to the from/to locations that it would also provide directions. I would like you to open GE by itself (outside RR) and try entering the same addresses, see if it works, if it does work, post me (or send me a private message) with the addresses entered so I can check on what's wrong.. if not, GE may just not support directions for that location.. anyway, making GE accept the messages coming from RR was a hell of a job, so it may very well be that there's a bug in it.