"Google Maps API"

sgenzer

hi...not sure if someone has done this before but I figured out how to get Google Maps API to work within RM.  This operator takes an address (attribute="address_for_google") and calculates the distance in miles to New York, NY.  Note that if you use this, you will need to request an API key from developer.google.com

 <operator activated="true" class="web:enrich_data_by_webservice" compatibility="5.3.002" expanded="true" height="60" name="Google Maps Distance Lookup" width="90" x="313" y="30">
            <parameter key="query_type" value="XPath"/>
            <list key="string_machting_queries"/>
            <list key="regular_expression_queries"/>
            <list key="regular_region_queries"/>
            <list key="xpath_queries">
              <parameter key="Distance" value="//distance/text/text()"/>
            </list>
            <list key="namespaces"/>
            <parameter key="assume_html" value="false"/>
            <list key="index_queries"/>
            <list key="jsonpath_queries"/>
            <parameter key="service_method" value="fgfgfgf"/>
            <parameter key="body" value="text=&lt;%title%&gt;"/>
            <parameter key="url" value=""/>
            <parameter key="delay" value="20"/>
            <list key="request_properties">
              <parameter key="key" value="ENTER YOUR API KEY HERE"/>
            </list>
          </operator>

Marco_Boeck

Hi,

cool, thanks for sharing

Regards,
Marco

MartinLiebig

That's cool

I build an libary process to show google map as sticky on a map. But this REALLY helps.

Thanks a lot!


Martin

sgenzer

thanks, guys.  It was fun. 

BTW if you try it, you should increase the delay to 150ms or so.  Google throttles the Distance Matrix API use at the "free" tier:

100 elements per query.
100 elements per 10 seconds.
2 500 elements per 24 hour period

Scott