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Miki Shah
Miki Shah

Reputation: 815

How to find fastest and shortest distance for round trip using Google Map API V3

I have Two destinations A. 185 Railroad St, Williamstown, VT 05679, USA B. 244 Granger Rd, Berlin, VT 05602, United States

For Single trip, I have fastest path VT-63 W, which has 13 miles and 19 mins,so for round trip, distance should be 26 miles and 38 mins. but Why google displays 20 miles and 40 mins for round trip?

Please refer RoundTrip_Mileage.png

enter image description here How can I find fastest path for roundtrip?

Is there any why that google map API can understand this is round trip?

Or Is there any logic that I can found this is round trip and than double distance and mileage for round trip?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1648

Answers (1)

user1469051
user1469051

Reputation: 57

I don't think this belongs in stack overflow. It should have been asked in https://superuser.com/.

Regardless, for the single trip you selected to take VT-63 W. https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=85+Railroad+St,+Williamstown,+VT+05679&daddr=44.1654204,-72.5409985+to:244+Granger+Rd,+Berlin,+VT+05602&hl=en&sll=44.172688,-72.531622&sspn=0.178282,0.393791&geocode=FY1JoQIdGDqt-ynb7ORanQS1TDFY0UFoLeuI5g%3BFSzpoQIduhyt-yk1hH2lJAS1TDFwLz9qWHdFTA%3BFeaaogId0sGs-ynpTSwANAa1TDF_Or0L4jEMTg&gl=us&mra=ls&t=m&z=12&via=1

For the round trip, you don't get recommended various paths and a different path is chosen for you.https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=85+Railroad+St,+Williamstown,+VT+05679&daddr=244+Granger+Rd,+Berlin,+VT+05602+to:85+Railroad+St,+Williamstown,+VT+05679&hl=en&sll=44.172688,-72.531622&sspn=0.178282,0.393791&geocode=FY1JoQIdGDqt-ynb7ORanQS1TDFY0UFoLeuI5g%3BFeaaogId0sGs-ynpTSwANAa1TDF_Or0L4jEMTg%3BFY1JoQIdGDqt-ynb7ORanQS1TDFY0UFoLeuI5g&gl=us&mra=ls&t=m&z=12

Because each set of directions takes a different path, they have different total distance traveled and total travel time.

Edit: Setting provideRouteAlternatives to True in the API would give you alternate routes. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference

Upvotes: 1

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