Driving Directions in Google Maps API
Filed under: Developing the Web — The Quagmire @ 9:48 pm
I was just looking at the Google Map API and noticed that they added turn by turn directions since the last time I looked at it. This is really exciting news and something that I really could have used a year ago.
In this article I’m going to lay out a bare bones example of getting map directions. We’ll start with some basic HTML and CSS. Then we’ll work our way into the scripts that will drive the interface. Keep in mind that this is intended as a bare example with only the necessary elements to get things functioning. In other words… it ain’t gonna be real pretty.
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