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I have a website where “near locations” are shown for each item, based on the latitude and longitude coordinates stored in a database.
Problem is that this calculated distance is the air-line distance, which differs a lot ferom the actual driving distance.
Google Maps does only have a JavaScript API for driving directions by now, I need it as a web service API to make calls directly from the server.
Is there any possibility to do this?
The Google Maps API has a HTTP service for geocoding, but not for directions. You can only access that functionality through the Javascript API. You could hack it, but it would break Google’s ToS.
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