Just released FSXGET Version 0.1 Beta 2 which contains a new feature, allowing you to select display units (meters or feet) and several bugfixes. Checks for the operating system and service pack version now as well as for SimConnect installed and instances of the application already running, to give better user feedback if the application encounters a problem at startup instead of crashing with some cryptic error message.
As always, more info and download here.
As I myself already got some experience with using Google Maps and Earth to display things such as stars (Web-based Planetarium) or Flight Simulator X aircrafts (FSXGET), I really like those two applications I’ve came over yesterday:
They’re both based on Google Maps, with the first one showing the realtime positions of Swiss trains…
… and the second doing the same for planes over Zurich.
Absolutely awesome! The latter one comes really close to FSXGET just for the real world and looking at the technique behind reminds me of a passive radar I’ve seen in action during a visit to INDRA‘s plant in Madrid.
Besides, since my internship at AENA, I somehow just enjoy looking at realtime maps with planes moving around 
Yet another short article about how to programmatically detect the version of the operating system and installed service pack version in a .NET application (C#).
Basically I found three ways how to determine these version number in a C# application:
SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Win32_OperatingSystem");
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query);
foreach (ManagementObject mo in searcher.Get())
int iSPVersionMajor = int.Parse(mo["ServicePackMajorVersion"].ToString());
Allows to retrieve numeric (major and minor) version number of installed service pack
I didn’t try this solution myself but it seems quite promising, too. More details can be found here.
Last but not least, some information about Windows Version and Build numbers:
Today I’ve released version 0.1 Beta 1 of FSXGET. It’s the direct successor to version 0.0.3.1 RC4. The change in naming is to make the version numbers more readable and manageable.
Remote Connection – Run FSX and FSXGET on different computers
The new version includes a new configuration dialog that facilitates setting up FSXGET to connect to Flight Simulator X running on a remote computer, i.e. a configuration where Google Earth AND FSXGET run on one computer but Flight Simulator X runs on another. I’ve also released a new tool called SimConnect Config Tool which helps changing Flight Simulator X configuration to allow remote access (e.g. from FSXGET). A howto article about setting up FSX and FSXGET for remote connections can be found here.
Just released a new update for FSXGET correcting bugs regarding x64 and non-English systems. Download and more information here.