Question

I am developing a web application where I need to find the closest bus-stop from a users location and mark it on a map. I have the list of bus-stops on my server. I am using Google’s Distance Matrix service which returns me the distance between my source and multiple bus
stops. Then, by comparing the distance i get the nearest bus-stop.

But this is all happening at client side. I wanted my server to do the
decision.

Is it possible for my server to directly communicate with the Google
maps server and get the distance?

Thanks

Answer 1

Sure, if you’re going to display it on a Google Map in the end. Google has a set of Maps related web services, one of which is the distance matrix, that can be called from the server.