While investigating the current issue with Google Earth, I discovered a couple things:
First, Google has now added support for Australia and New Zealand to Google Maps. I’ve had a lot of “requests” for this feature so I’m glad they’re finally supported. But please note, I have NO say in what countries are supported by Google Maps. Google probably doesn’t know that I exist.
Second, the problem with Google Earth is that, when you choose to lookup a single address in Google Earth via my plugins, Google Maps returns a KML file with this useless bit of information:
<Point>
<coordinates>,,</coordinates>
</Point>
<LookAt>
<longitude></longitude>
<latitude></latitude>
<range></range>
<tilt></tilt>
<heading></heading>
</LookAt>
Up until recently, these tags actually contained numbers! How about that.
I’m not sure if this is a temporary issue or if I should go ahead and work around the problem. Neither is ideal. If I work around the problem, what would happen is that the address you’re searching for would get passed to Google Earth, but there would be no auto-fly-to animation to its location (which is what makes Google Earth so much fun). If I ignore the problem for now, my inbox will get filled with with comments about Google Earth not working properly. =)
I also wanted to mention, that the previous bug with my plugins not saving your preferred countries has been fixed. Actually, I took it a step further and just gave you the option to choose which Google domain you prefer. I haven’t uploaded the new version yet though as I’m not finished testing. I’ll keep you updated.