We are creating a website for motorbike tours and would like our visitors to be able to enter a start and end location and have this update an embedded Google map on our own website, basically highlighting the best route. We'd like it to work exactly as the "Directions" feature on Google Maps works.
Is this possible? If so, how best to acheive this?
Also, we'd like to restrict the businesses and places of interest that appear on the map as some of them simply won't be relevant to our motorcycle audience. Is it possible to filter out businesses and places of interest and only display what we would like to display?
Really appreciate any advice that could be offered. Thank you.
Regards
Nath.
Yes you can there is already a post with a HTML example. There are limitations on how many requests can be performed in 1 day for free usage. Check the licensing information on the google site.
google maps plot route between two points
Surely you can.
Take a look here and here (the first is for javascript functionality, the second for server-side functionality through web services).
With these API you can show map, show pinned point on that and, using the direction API, you can also calculate the best route among other things.
About the businesses and places you want to show, you can use the places API. though I never used this one, so I can only suggest to have a look at the documetation.
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I'm trying to lift all the User IDs that match a segment in Adobe Analytics and store them somewhere (anywhere really), so I can then feed them into an action system for targeting.
Documentation seems hard to find - anyone have ideas on how I could achieve this?
Not sure if there's APIs or SDKs that let me pull this data, or pre-built connectors into something like Google Sheets, but again documentation seems light at best.
The simplest tool to use would likely be the Report Builder. It's an Excel extension by Adobe to export the data. It's pretty powerful. Can do pretty much everything AA can.
You could also generate data feeds and ETL the data from there to wherever you need it. It's a bit more advanced though.
Finally, you have the customer journey API, which would now be an even more advanced level of ETL.
Otherwise, yes, Adobe is notorious for how bad their documentation is and how hard it is to find it. It's almost like they don't want the good documentation to be there in order to sell more of their certification courses.
Note that sometimes when you google something and get to their forum to see the answer, Adobe will attempt to hide the answer behind the authentication wall. Just open that link in incognito and you'll be good. Adobe is pretty weird.
I'm wondering if I should add a recaptch to my website which gets 30k hits a day. Simply, it rewrites text with a custom made api I created.
I'm not sure how many robots are hitting my site, inputting text into the text box, and using the api (like a web scraper) and am considering using a recaptcha. But personally, I hate running into recaptchas, so I don't want it pop up if a real person is rewriting quite a few articles for a real reason.
Are there recaptcha settings that are ideal for this situation? Should I use a recaptcha and show it after 3 consecutive use cases for example?
Is the google recaptcha smart enough to know it's not a robot?
Are there better alternatives, maybe popular solutions which blocks scrapers?
Any advice is appreciated.
I'm working on have a property listing asp.NET website and the current search function is pretty crappy. I want to know if I can use the Google Custom Search API to extract the results but still present them in the same way there are now (comprehensive listing items with pricing, images, etc. Here's the current look: http://temporadaplus.com/Aluguel-Por-Temporada.aspx?pais=Brasil ). Each listing item is created via a .NET itemtype. SO basically all I need is to know how to go about using Google's much better results without altering anything visually.
I came across this question here but I am not sure its exactly what I;m looking for. Any ideas or comments are appreciated.
I have implemented Google Checkout sandbox for testing buy button which successfully allows user to place their orders. I want to add order of Google Checkout sandbox to my database by using asp.net.
Can anyone tell me how can I implement this scenario?
There are multiple interfaces to Google Checkout . By far the easiest is a buy now button, which is what it sounds like you've implemented. Now the limitation with that method is that it places one item into a cart at Google and that's the end of the interaction. So you need to process the order in the Merchant center. Nice and simple for small sites processing few orders. But doesn't sound like what you want. At the other end of the spectrum, you can do a custom cart using the html or xml interfaces. Using the xml interface, you have complete control of the order. Google will then do call backs on complete order to post the cart back to your site. Taken to the extreme, you can automate pretty much anything that could be done in the merchant center: canceling orders, issuing refunds, etc.
It's all a question of trading off integration effort with control. They offer a number of different integration patterns. There's a nice comparison on in the developer docs. But with the buy now buttons, I don't believe that anything ever comes back to your system, and it sounds like you want the order details back on your system/site. You may also want to take a look at Ways to integrate with Google Checkout and pick the integration pattern that makes the most sense for you.
I don't have ASP.Net code to hand you, but I'm sure it's doable and there are examples in the developer docs.
See this site for Checkout Client Libraries & Sample Code (including .NET and Classic ASP):
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/samplecode.html
Does anyone know of any decent examples of using the royalty free yahoo maps functionality?
I can find lots of examples on google but in order to use google within an intranet they insist on your paying approximately £7k a year.
Any links greatly appreciated, ideally i'm thinking JQUERY plugin .js script and a sample ASP.NET page.
I'd like to display placeholders based on long and lat data in our database, on mouse-over the placeholders (or pins) i'd display additional information from the database, images, links etc
many thanks in advance
john
I found just the thing at -> http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/examples.html