Is there a way I can get all routes from my current location to "any other location"?
By any other location I mean that the map should show all valid directions to locations I haven't specified. The range (in terms of distance) of the directions may be, say, 1 mile from my current location.
The only parameter I want to provide is my current location and check which all directions I can travel over.
No Google Maps can't do this nativity.
Might commonly be known as "Time Travel" Maps
Can see a crude demo
http://maps.forum.nu/gm_driving_radius.html
Related
I am developing an app that displays the Distance & path between 2 distances. In this case I have used following addresses:
Source: Major Bhola Ram Enclave
Destination: Ring Road Mall, Sector 3, Rohini, New Delhi, Delhi
When I use Directions API then I get following result, see image below:
But, when I search these addresses in Google Maps then I get different Result.
Click here to see Google Maps result
I searched a lot about this but I couldn't find any reason/solution for this.
Please guid me in right direction.
Thanks.
Those are not addresses, they are places. If you want a similar result to Google Maps, you need to use the placeId or the coordinates returned for that place from the places service in the directions request.
http://www.geocodezip.com/v3_example_geo2.asp?addr1=Major%20Bhola%20Ram%20Enclave&addr2=Ring%20Road%20Mall,%20Sector%203,%20Rohini,%20New%20Delhi,%20Delhi&place=1&place=2
(uses the results from the place service)
If I have a (latitude,longitude) pair, is there a way to determine whether it lies in a 'region'. By region I mean the 'highlighted' result of an query in google maps. For example, when I search for Manhattan, a red region is highlighted. Does Google/Bing provide an API to query if a given coordinate lie in such a region?
I am aware of the containsLocation API call that tells me if a coordinate lies in a polynomial already defined as a set of coordinates. The problem here is me not having all the coordinates that can define Delhi
Bing Maps provides an API called the GeoData API where you can pass in a coordinate and it will return the boundary information for the intersecting location (city in this case). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn306801.aspx
Another method as mentioned by others in the comments is to use a reverse geocoding service. By passing in your coordinates it will return the name of the city in which that coordinate is in. Bing Maps also has a Reverse Geocoding service:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701710.aspx
Really quick/simple question that will determine which map API i use for my project.
I dont need an example- ill figure that out, i just need to know if the capabilities are there.
If i have store geocode (latitude, longitude) coordinates in a database, can i put one of those little red markers on a google map without having to actually make a geocoding request from google?
Additional question:
Also, would it count towards any quotas every time i display one of their maps, even if i give them the geocoded coordinates? Because i mean technically their map still has to find those coordinates...
Q1: Yes — you tell the API the coordinates of where to put the marker, rather than get Google to find those coordinates.
Q2: The usage limits are published by Google. You can have up to 25000 map loads per day. If you don't use the geocoder because you provide the coordinates yourself, then you don't use a geocoder access.
I'm working on a project that picks random locations world-wide and need some functionality from Google Street View. I'm working with API v3 of Google Maps. The question I have is with the getPanoramaByLocation method. According to the Google docs, getPanoramaByLocation is :
"Retrieves the StreetViewPanoramaData for a panorama within a given radius of the given LatLng. The StreetViewPanoramaData is passed to the provided callback. If the radius is less than 50 meters, the nearest panorama will be returned."
The part I'm interested in is where it says "less than 50 meters, returns nearest panorama." So, for example, if I put in coordinates for somewhere in the middle of the Congo (where there isn't a street view for miles and miles), it should return a panorama of the nearest available street view. But it's not, it's returning null every time.
Is there a limit to how far away it looks?
Here's my Fiddle :
http://jsfiddle.net/nrJBP/1/
Thanks all, and hopefully this helps anyone in the future.
The service searches within the radius you give, as the docs state. You specify the maximum radius.
The service could find any Panorama data within the radius, except if you specify 50m, when it will always find the nearest (within that 50m).
You can use the google.maps.StreetViewStatus. If the request was successful, it will return OK. If there are no nearby panoramas, it will return ZERO_RESULTS.
I need to find points that define delimitations of neighbors from Chicago.
My question is: How can I find a list with latitudes/longitudes of all the points that delimit neighbors. For example:
Gold Coast from Chicago is a polygon with 6 points as seen on google map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=6&source=embed&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=206241844247425110008.0004b43f0262868b8037f
What is the best way to extract this points so I can draw poly-lines over google map with google API for specific neighbors?
Edited:
So with addresses, which you already have, you can create a Maps API site:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
and use the Geocoding API to get the latitude and longitude of each of the addresses.
Added: Seems based on your comment that you're looking for neighborhood boundary data. Google Maps doesn't provide that data. There are different venders that do, one I have heard of is the Zillow Neighborhood API. I have never used it so I don't know much about it.