Irina Borozan

Irina is a software developer from Bucharest, Romania. She enjoys working on various programming projects. She likes spending her spare time reading, hiking, travelling, skating or playing tennis. She also blogs a bit. You can find her online in her home on the internet and on twitter.

38 responses to “How to Build a Distance Finder with Google Maps API”

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  2. bago

    very nice and very usable!!!
    a little hint: why don’t u convert the distance in a more useful way? i.e. in km

    1. Irina

      The distance is converted in kms :)

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  4. leonid

    it`s great lesson!
    thanks.

  5. niks

    Hey. Great tutorial. I have always used google maps. Its interesting to see that there is lot more to it.

  6. hackxue

    Irina,Good work!
    I wanna to know if it could show the bus line!?

    1. Irina

      I will have to look. But I think so, but only for some cities. Check here: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/transit/

  7. shafi

    Hi!
    Yep, Nice article, helped me alot.

    Thanks.

    1. Irina

      I’m glad you liked it!

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  10. daniele

    i had to do this time ago for a website.
    don’t store the address, but use the lat and the long instead

    first of all i looped a php page that reads the addresses from the db, find lat and long via google geolocation and then store it into the db. starting from this moment you can always geolocate the point in the google maps reading its coordinates

    1. Irina

      That’s a good idea!

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  13. Irina

    Thank you all for the tips and ideas! I might be adding some to my next google maps tutorial :)

  14. Omer Rosenbaum

    Hi Irina!
    Great stuff you made there. I want to continue developing it and combine it with MySql.
    What I am trying to do is to get the 2 addresses into a DB. So far I haven’t had much success. Could you or anyone else can try to prepare such thing?

    1. Irina

      That’s a good idea! I am probably going to write another tutorial on google maps and I could also add this to it.

      In the meantime, if you need some help with what you’ve tried so far, send me a message or something and I could help you.

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  16. Shawn McConnell

    Irina, nice tutorial I have done something similar on my site but I just outline the locations of where I have previously worked on my resume page. this helps potential people see the general area I work in.

    Shawn,

    1. Irina

      Thats a good idea of using google maps! :)

  17. emil

    Multumesc pentru tutorial. Daca se poate traseu si cu ruta din 1, 2 puncte de trecere.
    Emil

    1. Irina

      Bună idee :)

      It’s not very difficult to add more points on a route as you said, you just have to multiply to code for the textboxes and markers :)

  18. Irina

    I’ve just found out google maps turns 5 today! Nice coincidence!

    They’ve made a map with applications made by users and I’ve added mine there :)

  19. Matt

    Nice tutorial! One question: why do you set the zoom level at 1? Wouldn’t it be better to make the zoom level high enough to show just the area with the two points defined by the user?

  20. Frank Bailey

    Hi Irina, this is a great tutorial, thanks a ton! I’d just like to know if you might be able to provide a quick example of how we might be able to allow the user to click a point on the map to use as either the destination or origin, rather than entering and then geocoding the address?

  21. Saad Bassi

    Really awesome Tut Irina. Thumbs up. :)

  22. Irina

    Thanks for all the comments and tips! I’m glad you like it :)

  23. aditya

    this is very nice post

  24. Andrea

    Very interesting, You should complete it adding driving directions!

    1. Saad Bassi

      Stay Tuned for the 2nd part coming on Thursday.:)

  25. George Chatzimanolis

    THANKS!!! It is an excellent tutorial.

  26. Pierre

    Nice tut! Thanks.
    I saw a website using Google Maps like your tutorial, providing this kind of tool: http://distancity.com

  27. Bojan

    Hi!
    Very nice article, a small digression, you don’t need an API key if you’re using Googla Maps API v3. (You also didn’t use an API key in example provided with post.)
    Regards

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