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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 63

How to load a static google map with a path (polyline)?

I have implemented some code that loads an image from a URL upon a listview item being clicked; this has been tested with a 'dummy' image and works without any problem with the image being displayed in an imageview object.

However, what I really want to do is to load a Static Google Map with Paths (polyline) via URL, but for some reason this is not working and I hope that someone here will be able to tell me what is wrong with my URL:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=400x400&path=40.737102,-73.990318|40.749825,-73.987963|40.752946,-73.987384|40.755823,-73.986397

According to the Google documentation http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ I believe that my URL should work, because an image witha path only requires the size attribute (i.e. all others are optional).

When I try to test load my URL via a web-browser I receive an Error 403 in Google Chrome telling me that the googleapis website requires a log in. Is this the API key? I have an API key that I've previously used for a non-static google map and I copy/pasted this key from the map's xml into my URL (using the key= attribute), but again this was not successful.

I've tried searching on google and this forum, but it seems that no-one has had this problem before - or maybe I'm just really bad at searching :( But hopefully someone can assist?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 13934

Answers (2)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 51

This requirement is fairly new, but yes, you are missing the API key.

Just as you added the parameters &size= or &path=, at some point you need to have a &key=parameter. So for your example it would look like this:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=400x400&key=ENTER-YOUR-API-KEY&path=40.737102,-73.990318|40.749825,-73.987963|40.752946,-73.987384|40.755823,-73.986397

hope that helps

Upvotes: 5

bamnet
bamnet

Reputation: 2554

You're missing the required sensor parameter.

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=400x400&path=40.737102,-73.990318|40.749825,-73.987963|40.752946,-73.987384|40.755823,-73.986397&sensor=false

Upvotes: 10

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