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[Update: I got this to work by turn on IIS, installing ASP.NET on it, and then using a google map key registered for https://localhost.

I had tried this with Cassini (the development web server that comes with ASP.NET 2.0) with keys registered to both https://localhost and https://localhost:3348 (or whatever the port ended up being), but couldn't get it to work.

So, now my code uses different keys based on whether I'm on my dev system or on the real site.

Thanks for the help...]

I think I'm missing something.

I spent some time today trying to get google maps up and running on my development system, without any luck. I've tried editing my hosts file and pointing my domain name to 127.0.0.1, making up a fake name and pointing that to my current IP address (with a new google api key), and a few other variations.

None of these are working. I think it might be because I'm using the Cassini web server rather than IIS, but I'm not sure.

So, if somebody can list the steps I need to get this working, I'd be much obliged.

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  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2005

    Install Fiddler
    http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/

    Watch where the requests are going to.

    Still not working? Install TCPView http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html
  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2005
    Feel free to check out my Bike Trip site, the backend is ASP.NET which I tie webserices and Ajax into the html page.

    Try a unque directory for the license key something someone else would not use, for some reason common names did not always work for me (ie. /Maps).

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2005
    Hey Eric-

    Not sure if this will help ya, but its an asp.net + google maps sample.

    http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/LatLaysFlat-Part1.asp

    http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/LatLaysFlat-Part2.asp

    http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/LatLaysFlat-Part3.asp
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2005
    Maybe a stupid question, but why not VirtualEarth?
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2005
    Bertrand,

    AFAICT, virtual earth doesn't do polyline overlays (yet?), and I can't do what I want without them.
  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2005
    Hey guy,

    Thanks for stopping by site and leaving a comment. I have a question about trackbacks. How does it work exactly? Does it matter which trackback I save to my account? Will each trackback on each person's space automatically let me know when that user has updated? I don't want peoples blog or comments showing up on my page. Will this happen with a trackback? Sorry for all the questions but I figured you seem to know a lot about them.

    Thanks for all your help.

    Sue
  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2005
    In terms of polyline overlays with VirtualEarth I've been doing them for a while and there are a couple of examples around.

    Take a look at the following example, it allows you to reference any shapefile containing points, polylines or polygons and overlay that including filled polygons with alpha blending over the Virtual Earth map.

    http://www.blogthevote.net/veshapefilec.htm

    There is also a gallery of other examples:

    http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/Default.ashx?page=1

    What is quite useful in terms of Virtual Earth is not requiring a key. So you can test without a web server at all, just load up a local .html page with script into your browser. And no issues when moving the app to a different server/url etc.

    Cheers
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    June 15, 2009
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