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- LabVIEW
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Description
If you need to interact with Google Maps API in your LabVIEW project in order to display the map and move it (zooming, shifting the map with the mouse, placing markers, so on), NI provides an already created project for interfacing the Google Maps API, but now Google makes the API keys paid. If you have a Google Maps API Key, you can download the GMaps API. In case if you don't have a Key, you can interface Google Maps through ActiveX control. Place an "ActiveX Web Browser" control on the front panel by Right-click >> .Net & ActiveX >> Web Browser.
On the Block Diagram, place an "ActiveX" Invoke Node by Right-click >> Connectivity >> ActiveX >> Invoke Node (ActiveX).
Wire the "WebBrowser" Control to the Invoke Node (ActiveX), click on the Method, and select "Navigate"
Add Google Maps URL to the "URL" input of an "Active X" Invoke Node
In the end, place a "Close Reference" node by going Connectivity >> ActiveX >> Close Reference from the Block Diagram.
Additionally, you can place a "while loop" before closing the reference so the Google Maps will be able to update continuously.
In the end, you should have a block diagram, similar to the following screenshot:
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Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.
