GDirections 25 element limit

April 28th, 2008

There’s an undocumented feature in the Google Maps API when retrieve driving direction wherein any GDirections request with more than 25 elements returns an error with code G_GEO_BAD_REQUEST (400). This isn’t particularly helpful but I found the answer in the Google Maps forums somewhere. So the trick is to partition your array of waypoints into […]


APIs are Hard but fun

March 22nd, 2008

Currently I’m working on an abstraction layer for the Google Maps API, this is purely written in Javascript, allowing any language to produce JSON objects and pass them quite seemlessly onto a Google Map. Originally this was planned to be able to be used across maps APIs (Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps) but has descended into […]


GDirections with no Markers

February 14th, 2008

I’ve been working with the Google Maps API quite a lot over the past couple of weeks, but one thing that has continuously thwarted me, has been how to remove the little Info Window maps from a route that has been loaded using GDirections and finally I have found the answer. When you load a […]