Similar to GMap2's getBounds() or the BBOX coordinates sent with a Google Earth request.

Requested by: pabu

Supported by: billChadwick, jan.wischnat

I think this feature is extremely important.

I'd like this too (for the moment, I'll try using lookAt.getRange(), which I gather, by trial-and-error, gives the width of the current view in meters (hey Google, what about improving the documentation on getRange -- what does it return, exactly? In general, I find GE documentation to be a bit skimpy.)

I also need this feature my application. I was using the Network Link feature and extracting the BBOX to get this information, however the Placemarks I generated cannot be iterated if I create them using a KML file.

Where are the Placemark objects stored when they are generated via the Network Link in this manner? NetworkLink does not have a "getChildren()" method but when I examine the getParentNode() of a Placemark passed to me through an event handler, it claims its parent is a "NetworkLink".

Issue 127 has been merged into this issue.

This long-requested feature is now available as of 5.0.11655.6079, as GEView.getViewportGlobeBounds

See the release notes, new Google Earth Plugin 5.0 samples, and updated v1.002 API reference for more details.

http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/releasenotes.html#2009-03-31 http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/demogallery.html?topic=fiveoh http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/reference/index.html

GEView.getViewportGlobeBounds is returning incorrect results. The results are outside of the viewing area. I need a function returning the coordinates of the corners of the current view.

To ensure you're getting the correct hit test result, please see comment 4 on Issue 361 .