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
