Question

I am using google encoding libraries to encode and decode path points array, like below:

To encode:

var encodedPath = google.maps.geometry.encoding.encodePath(path);

To decode:

var decodedPath = google.maps.geometry.encoding.decodePath(encodedPath);

However I found the encoding libraries is not consistently loaded every time. Sometimes the libraries only loads up to maps, as I printed out below:

showRouteFor(): google = [object Object]
showRouteFor(): google.maps = [object Object]
showRouteFor(): google.maps.geometry = undefined

using the below piece of JS code:

console.log("showRouteFor(): google = " + google);
if(google != null) {
    console.log("showRouteFor(): google.maps = " + google.maps);
    if(google.maps != null) {
        console.log("showRouteFor(): google.maps.geometry = " + JSON.stringify(google.maps.geometry));
        if(google.maps.geometry != null) {
            console.log("showRouteFor(): google.maps.geometry.encoding = " + JSON.stringify(google.maps.geometry.encoding));
        }
    }
}

Other times the libraries load ok and thus I can use it to decode the path.

What can be the reason?
Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Make sure you load the library by URL.