Hello all,
I've been searching the forums to try and find a solution, or at least a possible beginning to one, to my problem. What I'm attempting to do is to utilize the google earth interface for labview to display the location of a UAV. This has been done numerous times and is straight forward. Along with that, I need to be able to display a heading indicator for the aircraft. Most likely taking the form of a line extending from the center of the aircraft's icon in the direction the aircraft is flying. This is where I've been stumped. The plot would have to be updated every second or so with the new gps and heading data.
My thought was to overlay an xy plot on top of the google earth interface, which should allow for plotting both the location and course if I desired. This would require the overlayed plot to have the same scale as the google earth plot. Since the area the aircraft may be flying in will change drastically, I would need to be able to extract that data from google earth automatically (ideally) to allow xy plot axes to update to always match those of the google earth plot. I don't know how I would go about extracting that data.