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I'm trying to do what seemed to be an easy thing but has resulted in some confusion. I'm trying to have a link going to Google Maps with the destination address pre-filled and the from address to inherit the user's current location. From what someone else had instructed, if I used 'current location' as the 'from address', it'd do everything for me.
The route to the pre-defined destination is then calculated using the Directions service with a modified options parameter - notably in this instance to hide the default markers. The reason for hiding the markers is because they do not expose any events and thus we cannot bind any listeners to them so we add our own.
Although the current answers are great, none of them did quite what I was looking for, I wanted to open the maps app only, add a name for each of the source location and destination, using the geo URI scheme wouldn't work for me at all and the maps web link didn't have labels so I came up with this solution, which is essentially an amalgamation of the other solutions and comments made here ...
1. Remember, in Google Cloud Platform you'll need to enable "Directions API" to get it to work. Google Cloud Platform > APIs & Services > Library > Search in the box for "Directions API" and then Enable. – Rose.
I am using angular google maps in my angular Web App. I want to show directions from user's current location to a marker containing sub locations. In my web app the marker has multiple sub locations identified using lat and lng. So when user clicks on these sub locations, directions has to be shown from the user's current location.
In May 2017 Google announced the Google Maps URLs API that allows to construct universal cross-platform links. Now you can open Google maps on web, Android or iOS using the same URL string in form: Now you can open Google maps on web, Android or iOS using the same URL string in form:
The currently accepted answer ends up adding an additional history entry in browsers at the moment as Google Maps redirects to a different URL format. To avoid that extra entry in the browser's history, use the official Maps API url :
How to draw route direction from current location to destination which (latitude and longitude), i have code as below: import android.os.Bundle; import com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockActivity;
What i'm trying to do is set an address as destination and as the origin (starting point) I would like to put the current location of the device, but i cannot find anything on line that works with the iframe, all i found is to key current location as origin, but it doesn't seem to work, i also tried my location, current address and as i'm in ...
Drawing driving route directions between two locations using Google Directions in Google Map Android API V2. It shows how to draw a route map between two points, calculate distance and travel time. If you are having problems in following the tutorial, download the Android Studio sample project from the link below: MapDemo.zip.