July 13, 2005
Driving Directions Polyline added to Route Planner
I’ve added directions, distances & times, and driving direction polyline overlays to the Route Planner Google Maps Mashup/Hack.
Apparently, I had to hack Google to get driving directions. Polyline information was returned in an encoded format so I had to decode it. Once decoded into lats & longs, I was able to make calls to the API to create a polyline.









Planner said,
January 13, 2006 @ 7:33 am
used to carry a Pocket PC and a GPS CF card everywhere I went so I could tell exactly where I was but no longer. The excitement of just driving around and discovering new things has become lost as we’ve optimized our lives to make our travel as quick as possible. Give me a AAA road map and I’ll map out my route myself with a highlighter rather than let Google or Yahoo! decide what route I should go. Believe me, the scenery outside the car is much more enjoyable than a printout for your ink-jet.
jason said,
September 23, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
Hey Emad,
your routeplanner is very, very nice!!!
just wondering…
do you have the source code available for the mapping, routing, and distance calcs? I want to build add some map/distance/route stuff to my site to allow me to track mileage on the dirtbike. i’ve looked at the google APIs and such, but that distance routing stuff is pretty complicated.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
jason
chet said,
April 10, 2007 @ 11:24 am
Hey Emad,
your routeplanner is very, very nice!!! Just what I’d like to use on my own website.
Do you have the source code available for the mapping, routing, and distance calcs? I’m primiarily looking to get the distance between two points via a best-route scenario.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chet