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Google Map Settings in iDesktopX

Diego Fan

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Check the version of your iDesktopX

  • Make sure you are using the latest version --- in this case is iDesktopX 11.1.1 2023

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Check the version of your iDesktopX

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Open the Folder of iDesktopX

  • Find the folder named with bin and open

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Clear the Web Cache

  • Find the folder named with Cache and delete that folder.

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Try to open the Google Map

  • You can open by right-clicking on the Datasource and selecting “Open Web Datasource” or clicking the globe icon on the “Web drop-menu” in the Datasource Group of Start tab.

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  • Follow the screenshot and try to open Google Maps again in the iDesktopX to check if you can see the map showing in the iDesktopX.

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  • If you still can not see the Google satellite map, which means you need to change the Google map satellite map version in an xml document.

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Check the Google Satellite Version with your Explorer

  • Open the page of Google Maps in your Explorer (Chrome or Edge).
  • Change the layer to the satellite

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Check the Google Satellite Version with your Explorer

  • Click F12 in your keyboard to call the console out.
  • Then select “Network”

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Check the Google Satellite Version with your Explorer

  • Zoom in or out of the satellite map to load the tiles of Google Satellite Maps.

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Check the Google Satellite Version with your Explorer

  • Then double-click on the image tile loaded when you did the zoom process. The type is jpeg in this case.

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Check the Google Satellite Version with your Explorer

  • Then we will open a new tab only with the tile we selected. We can find the satellite data version by the name of the tile or the address.

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Check the Google Satellite Version with your Explorer

  • In this case, the version is 962. Then we can modify the file named SuperMap.xml in the bin folder with this information.

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Change the Info in the SuperMap.xml

  • Find the SuperMap.xml file in your bin folder of the iDesktopX root directory.

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Change the Info in the SuperMap.xml

  • Open with the editor and search “satellite”. The number between <GoogleSatelliteV> is the version of the Google Satellite data we are going to load

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Change the Info in the SuperMap.xml

  • Go to change the version number to the real satellite version number you found with the explorer. In this case is 962. It will change with the time.

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Change the Info in the SuperMap.xml

  • If you find you can not read the satellite data with iDesktopX, you should check the satellite data version again and change the content in the xml file.

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Change the Info in the SuperMap.xml

  • If you find you can not read the satellite data with iDesktopX, you should check the satellite data version again and change the content in the xml file.

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Clear the Web Cache again

  • Just in case, clear the cache again please.

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Try to open the Google Map again

  • You can open by right-clicking on the Datasource and selecting “Open Web Datasource” or clicking the globe icon on the “Web drop-menu” in the Datasource Group of Start tab.

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  • Follow the screenshot and try to open Google Maps again in the iDesktopX to check if you can see all the Google Maps showing in the iDesktopX.

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Thank you all!

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