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Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:05:16 GMT

I've just posted a widget for leveraging Google's directions api. Download and enjoy, both compiled and uncompiled versions have been supplied. I've posted version 1 of the widget to get some comments and maybe see what additional functionality people may want. I have my own ideas but I'd like to get some feedback. Please remember to rate the widget if you like what you see.

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=20fc9fd1c43c45c5a1dbf8b4f03bee79

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:15:53 GMT

temporarily offline... will post when it's back

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:29:32 GMT

technical glitch was fixed and it's now back online

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

BjornSvensson — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:46:14 GMT

The zip file contains a users.xml with what looks like username/password. If those are real passwords, you might want to remove that file from the download... 🙂

Also, you might want to remove the whole compiled version except for the actual GoogleRouting widget (and its related files). Most of the time you can assume that people already have the "main" compiled version, and thus are only looking for the files needed by this widget. Just a suggestion...

For the Google directions, are you using the http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/directions/ API?

Did you also look at their flash API (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/reference.html#Directions)?

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:54:38 GMT

Thanks, The users xml was just leftover garbage from previous testing. Nothing critical there. I will also check out the flash api, I hate having to use a proxy.

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:01:03 GMT

Bjorn,

Is it me or is the flash api a little less functional? The api I'm currently using seems like it has much more.

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

BjornSvensson — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:16:48 GMT

Andrew, I haven't looked closer at their flash api, I was hoping you had 🙂

Though I'm not surprised that their flash api has less features than their SOAP API...

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:04:58 GMT

moved to:

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/27106-Google-Routing-Widget-for-the-Flexviewer?p=89878#post89878

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

MikeGarza — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:19:08 GMT

Thank you for this app. I am receiving the following error message after I type in some addresses: faultCode:Channel.Security.Error faultString:'Security error accessing url' faultDetail:'Unable to load WSDL. If currently online, please verify the URI and/or format of the WSDL (http://www.geosmartniagara.ca/googleproxy/Service.asmx?WSDL)' I can access this URL from IE8 directly without a problem.

Also, I cannot find where on the .xml file where I replace LocalHost with my server name. Any advise would help. I really would like to get this app working.

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

BjornSvensson — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:26:28 GMT

I am receiving the following error message after I type in some addresses: faultCode:Channel.Security.Error faultString:'Security error accessing url' faultDetail:'Unable to load WSDL. If currently online, please verify the URI and/or format of the WSDL (http://www.geosmartniagara.ca/googleproxy/Service.asmx?WSDL)' I can access this URL from IE8 directly without a problem.

When you can access the URL directly but not from a flash application, it is usually due to either a missing crossdomain.xml file, or it's not configured to allow your flash application access.

In this case, look at http://www.geosmartniagara.ca/crossdomain.xml and you'll notice that it only allows access for applications hosted on cogeco.ca. What's the URL for your application?
<allow-access-from domain="*.cogeco.ca"/>

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:36:48 GMT

When you can access the URL directly but not from a flash application, it is usually due to either a missing crossdomain.xml file, or it's not configured to allow your flash application access.

In this case, look at http://www.geosmartniagara.ca/crossdomain.xml and you'll notice that it only allows access for applications hosted on cogeco.ca. What's the URL for your application?
<allow-access-from domain="*.cogeco.ca"/>

You won't be able to use my proxy service. I included a asp.net proxy service, "googleproxy", with the download.

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

MikeGarza — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:27:27 GMT

Andrew and Bjorn, thank you very much for your help. I was missing the crossdomain.xml so I created a file from Andrews and placed it inside my google proxy service. I refreshed my IIS and added in the "http://gkbz/googleproxy/Service.asmx?WSDL" as my proxzy url service and it works perfectly.

Thanks again for a great app, Andrew!

Mike Garza, GISP

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:55:53 GMT

Thanks Mike Don't forget to rate it. I will have an update after I get a few more comments. I do have zoom to route working. I will be adding from and to points and tooltips along the route.

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

MikeGarza — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:23:23 GMT

Hi Andrew, I have a question. I got the widget to work on Wednesday afternoon and when I opened up the website on Thursday morning the widget no longer works. It is giving me the following error message: "Google could not generate a route".

I did not make any changes to the xml or proxy service. Have you ever run into this problem before?

Please feel free to email at michael.garza2@sanantonio.gov

Thank you
Mike

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

JanieGoddard — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:41:23 GMT

I can download the GoogleRouting and the compiled version works great standalone.
I tried adding the Compiled Version to my FlexViewer 2.4 compiled version and the Google Routing won't execute. I have the googleProxy out there and created it in IIS. I copied the GoogleRoutingWidget into my widgets folder and updated my server name as described. I copied the two supplied images into assets/images.
Any ideas?

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

JanieGoddard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:58:08 GMT

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This looks like a really nice widget. Thanks, Janie

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

JanieGoddard — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:51:37 GMT

I sure do miss Andy's help! Any ideas?

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

JanieGoddard — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:38:34 GMT

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Janie

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

JanieGoddard — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:33:25 GMT

Yeah...Andy's back....Can I get some help Andy with the Google Route program adding it to the Compiled version??
Thanks,
Janie Goddard

Re: Google Routing Widget for the Flexviewer

andrewj_ca — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:38:00 GMT

Janie,

Best place to reach me is through gmail. Send me a msg there and we'll get you sorted out.
Cheers.

Andy