I'm developing rails app with google maps and car routes.
I have a start and finish points for car route - two coordinates. How can I get a full car route (array of coordinates for car through streets)? Can I do it using gmaps4rails
and geocoder
?
Something like this:
start_point = [41,2423; 45,323452]
end_point = [42,2423; 42,323452]
full_route = some_method_for_calculate_route( start_point, end_point )
#paint line on map from array of points
paint_line( full_route )
Please help,
thanks kindly :)
If you want to do it client side, you have a plunkr here.
It is highly inspired by the google documentation here.
Basically its a way to interact with google libraries
var handler = Gmaps.build('Google');
handler.buildMap({ internal: {id: 'map'}}, function(){
var start_point = [43.2423, 5.323452];
var end_point = [44.2423, 5.323452];
var directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService();
var directionsDisplay = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer();
directionsDisplay.setMap(handler.getMap());
var request = {
origin: new google.maps.LatLng(start_point[0], start_point[1]),
destination: new google.maps.LatLng(end_point[0], end_point[1]),
travelMode: google.maps.TravelMode.DRIVING
};
directionsService.route(request, function(response, status) {
if (status === google.maps.DirectionsStatus.OK) {
directionsDisplay.setDirections(response);
}
});
});
You will want to use the Google Directions API. This will return you a JSON Object (or XML) with an array of directions including distance, coordinates, and written instructions.