Google Earth API vs COM API

[FranciscoSevillano]

Hello,

I am intending to get started with an application using the google
earth api. Since i am a beginner i am quite unsure which of them will
have better support. So i would like to know wich one provides a
better funcionality/support relationship.

Thanks in advance

[StarTraX]

The first thing to be aware of is that the COM API, while quite
powerful and relatively easy to use, is no longer being developed and
has been in that state for a year or two.
I initially developed by app (in VB.NET) with COM - but re-engineered
using GE API when these shortcomings became an issue.
The downside to GE API is that you have to get into JavaScript, which
ain't all nice. Also the syntax of the GE API is a bit obscure (!) -
but it's worth it in the end.
The GE API is much more powerful than COM - providing you, the
developer with, for example, the ability to retrieve the altitude of a
point on the earth and to use the KmlCamera which allows you to tilt
above the horizon - and heaps more.
No doubt about it - forget the COM - it's easy but limited and
obsolescent.

[GTrek]

Hi StarTrax,

Am I incorrect in thinking that GE API is a web based solution and
needs a key (a free one) to use it ?.

If I embed this in an application then run it in another location the
key will fail, won't it?

Or have I missed the plot somewhere ?.

John

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[StarTraX]

Plot missed.
Contact me through gpsanimator.com to discuss. Read the doco on the
site. Alan

[fraser (Earth API Guru)]

Hi GTrek,

You may be interested in this project:
http://code.google.com/p/winforms-geplugin-control-library/

F.