Sprint Family Locator Forum

[FayeKane]

Right now, the "absent-minded professor" I help is WAY not where he's supposed to be at 7:30 am, which is teaching English at another part of town. He's in a building, but I have no way to see the address.

How about adding a button to switch to Google Earth at the found location so we can use street view for a better look at where the person is?

It would be VERY easy to do--probably less than an hour of programming. All you have to do is put the coordinates in a string and tell the O/S to call Google earth with that parameter.

Or do you guys have a contract with Microsoft that prevents this?

-faye kane

[DigitalPhotoPro]

[FayeKane]

Uhhh... I HATE to tell people they're wrong because they get mad, but all it involves is creating a button with code behind it that writes the longitude and latitude to an XML file, saves it with a KMZ extension, and tells the O/S to execute it.

Assuming you know the language SFL is written in, and assuming the geodetic coordinates are immediately available as objects, would that take YOU more than an hour to code?

If you want to get fancy, catch a nonzero return code and pop a message box saying "Google Earth could not be started". That's 5 more lines.

Documentation means adding the the text: "To Show the Location in Google Earth, click the button that says 'Show Location in Google Earth'. Note: For this to work, Google Earth must be installed on your computer."

All the user ever does is click the button. Do you work somewhere that the tech support people need training to do that?

-faye