Lately, we were experiencing issues with the Google Maps API. I just checked my Google Cloud Platform Dashboard and the "Errors" graph shows 100%.
Can someone point me in the right direction as to what this value means? (The service seems to work again, but the value is staying on 100%.)
I recommend you to:
Click on the API name Maps Statics API this will take you to that
particular API Overview page
Click on Metrics (left menu)
That should show you several graphs see the one that says Errors by API method
to see which method is generating errors
Google Maps Static API can only be invalid requests, because it's for embedding Google Maps.
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I am working on a project where an user could draw on a google map a polyline, polygon, walking, driving an cycling route.
All of those tools are available in Google My Maps app (link)
Here is a picture:
On google Maps API documentation I found library called Drawing tools (link to sample), but this is not what I am looking for. You can add to parameter drawingModes polyline and polygon, but there is no options for drawing a route.
Another picture:
So my questions are:
Is there a code or library or anything for tools from Google My Maps app (if there is, it could save me a lot of time - I need exactly what there is) (yes/no) (if yes, where? Ignore other two questions)
If not, are tools from My Maps (at least polyline and polygon) builded from library Drawing tools? (yes/no)
If yes, how can I add functionality to add routes? (please provide a simple sample or hint how to add one of the routes driving/cycling/walking)
I will try to address your question
Google MyMaps and Google Maps JavaScript API are different products managed by different teams at Google. I'm not aware about any third party library or tool that allows to use MyMaps functionality via Google Maps JavaScript API.
MyMaps tools are not related to drawing library of Google Maps JavaScript API as I mentioned before.
I can see the following feature request in the public issue tracker regarding the ability to access Google MyMaps via Google Maps JavaScript API. However, it doesn't look like the API team has set a high priority on this task.
Recently, Google map could go back in time Street View by "TimeMachine".
I couldn't find the way in the APIs.
Is their TimeMachine parameter for change the time?
Have I any other way if we don't have API to get the data of "TimeMachine"?
For example, enter a URL of Street View directly.
To my knowledge, this is not possible using the API.
This feature request from the official Google Maps API bug tracker covers exactly this funcitonality:
Issue 6718: Feature Request: Access to Street View images from different times
It it open since May 2014.
How do I obtain an API Key to embed static Google Maps images in my website?
So I want to embed Google Maps images on my site for locations I have the lat and long for. Building the URL is easy enough, but I'm having a world op trouble locating my API Key.
I've enabled the Static Maps API in the console, but the documentation I can find (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/guide) specifies that I should proceed to the Services item in the left-hand menu. However, there is no such Services item in the left-hand menu in the Console. And the screen captures included with the documentation seem to refer to earlier versions of the Console (mine is more modern and responsive--unfortunately, I cannot include a screen capture).
How do I obtain an API Key to embed static Google Maps images in my website?
First of all, the document you have linked is a different API altogether.
Here's the link for Static Map API key documentation.
Now with regard to locating the API key, you're probably looking at an updated version of Developers Console. On Left go to APIs & auth instead.
Choose the API(s) you want for your application. Activate them.
Then go to Credentials on left. This is where you'll find the key.
I'm making a visualization using google maps. However, I have to make many direction requests to google maps.
Is there a way to "download" a section of a map, along with all its bus/car/bike routing information, so the direction requests can be done locally?
If it's possible, can you give a rough example to get me in the right direction?
Thanks :)
No there's no offline access to the Maps API, for either viewing tiles for associated services like routing/directions.
Additionally, you must always ensure the results of these types of requests are displayed on a Google map (which must be publicly available for free, according to the terms of service).
If you are looking for the ability to do offline routing with your own dataset, there are a number of open source routing engines available.
I want to use Google Maps API with Processing. Until now I was just able to get Google Places data, but I'm struggling with the map itself. I know about other map options, like unfold or modestMaps, but I need Google. In particular because of the directions API in further progress. I've searched this forum and the web, without any help. I thought it should be quite
easy.
How can I use Google Maps with Processing?
I'm not sure about getting a full featured, dynamic Google Maps within your Processing app, but you might be able to modify the Processing library for the Google Weather API to instead use the Directions or Static Maps APIs. http://www.onformative.com/lab/google-weather-library-for-processing/
If you download the source and check out GoogleWeather.java you can see the constructor is calling the WeatherAPI and getting back the XML result. I think you could do the same thing except use the Directions API in it's place.
Here's a post on a Java blog about showing Static Maps API results in Java, which might be translatable into Processing: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cajo/archive/2010/10/16/adding-google-maps-your-java-application
For something more dynamic, you might be able to adapt JXMapViewer, check out this article: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/10/30/building-maps-into-swing-app-with-jxmapviewer.html