Using Google Maps from VB 2008

[VBDavid]

Afternoon Everyone,

I hope that someone out there might be able to help me. I am creating an application that will read from a CSV file, and display that information in a DataGridView. This first part of the operation works as does the conversion from Degrees/Minutes/Seconds to Degrees decimal. Once converted the datagrid view shows:

UHF CH1 Rep -24.055 133.9783333

There are a total of 704 entries like this.

What I am having problems with is showing this position on a Google Map. My project is using the WebBrowser Control in VB 2008, but when I use the URL I get the entire google page.

URL:http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-24.055,133.9783333

The size of the WebBrowser control is 373, 431.

What I would like to be able to do is have the location centred in the WebBrowser control

Any help that any one can give me would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Welcome to the forums! :wave:

The best way would be to use the Google Maps API, provided by Google. you could find more info on it here :

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/introduction.html#Loading_the_Maps_API

If you have a registered Google account.

What I once did was to create a normal Webpage to host the map, and from my program's WebBrowser, I just navigated to that file ( as shown in the attachment )

You may need a little JavaScript help to set up all the addresses properly though, but it shows what you want, and how you want it then :)

With the attached file, just unzip it, copy the Map.html file to the C:\ then run your project, and voila!

I hope my post was helpful :D

[VBDavid]

Thanks HanneSThEGreaT,

Will check out the API and see if that helps. Have saved your zip file and will have a llok at that as well