On Jun 25, 2:12 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 25, 9:33 pm, David C <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there a programmatic way to determine whether driving directions > > are available for a particular country? > > Two ways I can think of: > (a) try to get directions from a point in the country -- to itself may > well suffice. If there's an error, directions aren't available. > (b) use the spreadsheet > athttp://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p9pdwsai2hDMsLkXsoM05KQ > together with the spreadsheet API, about which I know nothing! I > expect it's explained somewhere; there are a few examples using > spreadsheets at the bottom of the examples > pagehttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/links-to-examples-...
Thanks, Andrew. Since the data doesn't change all that often, and to cut down on the network traffic, I decided to go with parsing the spreadsheet and save the value of the drivingdirections option for each country in the database. At periodic intervals (once a day/week/something) I'll request the spreadsheet again, sending a If-Modified-Since header so I'll get a 304 response if it hasn't been updated since the last time I parsed it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
