use-revolution Digest, Vol 55, Issue 35

[Fred moyer]

I really know almost nothing about web sites, API, etc. Could anyone  
suggest someone I might hire to put this functionality into my stack?

Again, I need to be able to retrieve the drive time between two zip  
codes or two cities.

Thanks,

Fred


On Apr 17, 2008, at 5:31 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:32:15 +0100
> From: "David Bovill" <david at openpartnership.net>
> Subject: Re: Problem with put URL and websites
> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> Fred - I'd agree with Scott and look at doing this with a supported  
> API
> rather than screen scraping. Downaside is you need to understand  
> the API -
> upside is there are lots of people who can help on various lists  
> and the
> API's are relatively stable as the big boys try not to break them as
> developers depend on them. With Screen Scraping you are at the  
> mercy of the
> graphic designer.
>
> I have not done much with the Google Maps API and Rev - but a quick  
> loo
> indicated it should be possible:
>
>    -
>    http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ 
> reference.html#GDirections(getDuration())
>    - http://www.mercatorgeosystems.com/content/view/33/1/ (seem to  
> have a
>    free API)
>    - http://www.tufat.com/docs/distance/ (an app done in php using  
> Google
>    API?)
>
> I have found the yahoo Maps API much easier for a Rev app to call -  
> at least
> for geocoding (http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/ 
> geocode.html), but as
> of yet I have not figured out how to use Google Maps except to  
> create web
> pages with javascript - this would mean creating a web page that  
> produces a
> simple drive time table and fetching the url to this page in Rev.
>
> Hope this is useful and llet us know how you get on!