Paste the text into your Notepad document.Start a new route on Google Maps with your remaining destinations, making sure to right-click and choose “Directions from here” rather than typing the place name. We won't need this for our route to work. Paste the URL in your Notepad document for editingĭelete everything from the symbol or later.Then, right-click the bar and select “Copy” or press Ctrl + C on your keyboard. If your URL bar lists place names instead of co-ordinates, head to each location, remove it, and right-click to add it to the list rather than typing in its name.Ĭlick and drag on your URL bar or press Ctrl + A to highlight all of the text. Plan a route map with multiple stops in Google Maps.Unfortunately, traffic info doesn't allow stopovers that are required for route optimization.Once you have Google Maps open, follow the guide below to add more than 10 destinations. If the request includes waypoints, prefix each waypoint with via: to influence the route but avoid stopovers. The request does not include stopover waypoints.The departure_time can be set to the current time or some time in the future. The request includes a valid departure_time parameter.The travel mode parameter is driving, or is not specified (driving is the default travel mode).Traffic information is used when all of the following apply (these are the conditions required to receive the duration_in_traffic field in the Directions response): On the other hand if you check duration in traffic section of documentation it states All waypoints must be stopovers for the Directions service to optimize their route. (This optimization is an application of the traveling salesperson problem.) Travel time is the primary factor which is optimized, but other factors such as distance, number of turns and many more may be taken into account when deciding which route is the most efficient. Optionally, you may pass optimize:true as the first argument within the waypoints parameter to allow the Directions service to optimize the provided route by rearranging the waypoints in a more efficient order. If we check documentation we can see the following statement about optimizationīy default, the Directions service calculates a route through the provided waypoints in their given order. There is no way to optimize a route taking into account current traffic conditions in Directions API. I believe your developer is completely right. Is there any workaround? "Via" seems to be a good alternative, but wouldn't allow the user to tell the app how long he's staying at a specific event. The app uses stopovers waypoints to allow the user to create a route.
The part of the documentation that seems to make it impossible is : Traffic information is used when all of the following apply : I trust him, but I find it hard to believe that it's impossible to optimize a route with traffic info in mind with the Google Maps API.Īny thoughts or example that would help me out? Thanks a lot!
He says it can only optimize the route taking in consideration the regular travel time, without traffic information. I asked my programmer to make sure it takes in consideration the traffic data when you press the "Optimize my route" button, but he says it's impossible to do, based on this API documentation : If not, it will rearrange your route to make sure you don't waste time. There's a "Optimize my route" button, that checks if the order you have entered the waypoints are the best way to save time during that trip. I am working with a programmer for an Ionic app that uses Google Maps API to allow the user to create custom routes with multiple waypoints.
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