It's finally ready!
For those who downloaded my web part a year or so ago, it worked perfectly until around October of 2008 when version 4.0 of the virtual earth API either changed or became unsupported. Well, since then I've been working in my free time to get the web part upgraded to the 6.2 version of the virtual earth API. This proved to be no five minute task!
My apologies for the delay (sincerest apologies actually – I know it was disappointing for some). But I've finally got it there.
Version 2.0 has a couple notable changes from version 1.0:
- Deploys to the GAC so people won't get the security exceptions
- I implemented a time delay between searches. This is because the 6.2 API "moves" the map after it finds something which causes problems when I try capture the lat/long coordinates. In essence, I must wait for the map to finish moving. The time is configurable and the problem is mostly seen when you have a few, tightly grouped addresses.
- I minimized the address view and included "plus" symbols to expand the nodes. I had complaints of it becoming unusable if you have more than 5 or so addresses:
There are some known bugs too. If you have a tight grouping of address over a small geographic radius, it will sometimes duplicate the last point. Stay tuned for a version 2.1 when I hope to have this fixed, as well as add functionality to accommodate lan/long entries for our friends who reside in other countries.
More information: http://philwicklund.com/freeware/virtualearth
Phil