Hello. I've searched the discussion group for some answers on my questions and found some interesting posts but many seem outdated and others aren't exactly what I'm looking for.
Anyway. I'm currently working on my bachelor thesis in computer science and engineering and basically we're going to develop a program that, among other things, computes the shortest route (traveling salesmanish) for a goods delivery transport, given a number of stops. We want to use the Google Maps API to get data on driving distances (for car) between A and B, and also driving time. We're gonna use this to construct a graph with which we compute the route. The program is supposed to be an external application written in Java. Any ideas on how we might use the API for this, since we're not writing a web-thingy? My initial thought is to have some kind of webpage which we query from our Java program (we send two addresses), which in turn queries Google Map API through JS, and then it returns the driving distance and time. Is there any other way to do this? Maybe without using an external webpage to go via? It was my understanding that this was necessary due to the fact of the API key you have to use, but I might be, and hope I am wrong. Also, I had an idea of embedding a browser inside our program to show the route to go and so on. But that's secondary. Thanks in advance! :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
