Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance data between locations

Re:Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance da... by etcher on Saturday April 19, 2014 @07:00PM (#7615084)

To use different units, you can specify 'imperial' (default) for miles/feet or 'metric' for kilometers/meters.

The wrapper fetches all of the data returned from Google (except for the value fields): http://cl.ly/image/3M003N0s0z3q

It actually might be a good idea to fetch the value fields as well, since that would make conversion to other metrics easier. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Re:Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance da... by konspence on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:28PM (#7619441)

I do think it would be valuable to fetch the value field, as then the user can format the text however they want - for example, I may want to say "96 minutes" instead of "1 hour 36 minutes".

Additionally, it's much easier to compare two values (e.g. if one wanted to compare distances between X and Y versus X and Z).

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Re:Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance da... by etcher on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:28AM (#7620271)

Good point. The value field is fetched as of version 0.2.0.

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Re:Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance da... by konspence on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @12:13AM (#7625763)

Awesome! That looks nice. Thanks for taking feedback.

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