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October 1, 2009
Use the Google Earth Plug-in with Google Wave
A few days ago, we showed you a quick glimpse of how Google Maps could be used inside of a Google Wave. Today, less than 24 hours after the semi-public release of Google Wave, Roman Nurik has already released a slick little gadget to embed the Google Earth plug-in in a wave.
To add it to a wave, simply click the green "Add Gadget by URL" icon and use the following URL: http://www.nurik.net/gadgets/earthwavegadget.xml
This gadget will fire up the plug-in, and plot the locations of all of the users in the wave. There aren't any other options than that, but it's more of a proof-of-concept than anything. The idea of combining the Google Earth Plug-in with Google Wave's real-time collaboration has some awesome potential.
If you have access to Wave, check it out and let us know what you think. If you find any other great geo-related Wave gadgets, please feel free to let me know at mickey@gearthblog.com. Below you'll find a short video I created that shows exactly how to use this gadget:
Posted by mickmel at October 1, 2009 12:59 PM
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Posted by: Glennon at October 1, 2009 2:13 PM
Hey I'm famous, I'm in the screen shot!!!
Works great for me!
Just need to get some of my friends on here.
Posted by: dyppmo at October 2, 2009 12:32 AM
It's a little buggy in Firefox on my Mac running Snow Leopard. It will start to load then crash. Yet, when I went to record a jingcast of it, it played just fine. Now THAT should be helpful to someone, don't you think?
Thanks for another great tip.
Posted by: Jim Gates at November 7, 2009 8:27 AM
I haven't gotten this to work in either Firefox, or IE, or Chrome. I keep getting the message that there is an internal sever error.
Posted by: D0cR0b at November 19, 2009 9:46 PM
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Thanks to Roman Nurik for getting to a rapid start. It's also helpful to see the contents of the xml (by loading the gadget url in a browser address bar) -- as a glimpse of the basic requirements to customize and roll something like.