As always, more info and download here.

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

Basically I found three ways how to determine these version number in a C# application:

1. Using the System.Environment.OSVersion class
   - Fast and easy, perfect to get Windows version including major, minor, revision and build section of the version number.
   - Problematic to get the service pack version: Gives you a string like e.g. ‘Service Pack 1, v.744′ which you’d have to parse then. Not an ideal and very stable way (regarding future service packs) to get the service pack version number.
2. Using the WMI Interface

   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

3. Using native Win32 API: GetVersionEx

   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:

• Wikipedia on the Comparison of Windows Versions
• Wikipedia on Microsoft Windows
• Wikipedia on Windows NT

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.