Thanks, like expected. 

On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 3:27:04 PM UTC+1, barryhunter wrote:
>
> There's no 'API' for that if that what you mean. 
>
> It can be done in the Maps API, but it would need to be done 'yourself'. 
> Would need to figure out the 'boundary' using whatever method you can, and 
> then plot a mask. 
>
> The mask can infect just be an 'inverted' polygon, ie the non masked area 
> is a hole in a polygon
>
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18867/is-it-possible-to-gray-out-a-google-maps-map-except-for-some-area
>
> the Directions API can in thoery be used to create the boundary, but its 
> not setup for it. Calling the API the large number of times needed to plot 
> an accurate boundary, is liable to get hit by rate limits. 
>
>
> (the hotels site, I think plots the mask server side as image tiles. On 
> the server it has more ready access to the the directions API - or possibly 
> even a special API setup to make these 'travel time' maps far more 
> efficient. )
>
>
> On 16 January 2015 at 14:18, speechkey <gre...@googlemail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> is it possible to grey out areas on the map not reachable in *x* minutes 
>> like on the Google Hotels page: 
>> https://www.google.de/hotels/#search;l=Munich;d=2015-02-05;n=1;usd=1;mf=r;ar=;rtt=600;ph=0;si=cceb8c74;av=r
>>
>> Greetz, Artem
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