I would like to see the traffic in specific location. For example, vehicle number where passed that location. Could you please suggest me to contact anyone in Google Thailand? Thanks.
I would like to try to contact Google Thailand, but it is difficult to reach Google officer to work together about this request.
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I have an active Google Cloud Platform account for the purpose of integrating the map functions into my website. Currently I have a map on my contact page (https://voltfuse.com/contact) and on my dealers page (https://voltfuse.com/dealers).
Until recently, I noticed that the map on my dealer page is no longer working, telling me that it was unable to correctly load. You can see an image of this in the attached "Broken Map.png".
It's strange because the map is working perfectly with the same API on my contact page, which can be seen on "Working Map.png".
The code for the broken page can be found here: https://codeshare.io/5w0ez7
I am wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the map is not loading.
Thanks,
Alex
Broken Map.png Working Map.png
Google has recently imposed strict limits on the Google Maps JavaScript API. You must now enter your billing information in the Console to enable higher limits for your account. As of the date of this answer, after entering your billing information, you will receive $200 worth of free usage per month.
See more info at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/usage-and-billing
I run a website that allows you to hire a journalist anywhere in the world, and we have correspondents in 150 countries. It's hosted on App Engine, and occasionally we get a journalists emailing us to say that our site is not available from where they are. The specific error is:
Your client does not have permission to get URL xxx from this server.
(Client IP address: x.x.x.x)
We're sorry, but this service is not available in your country. That’s
all we know.
The locations we have identified so far are: Cuba and Crimea.
I can't find a complete list anywhere, but I really need one. Any suggestions?
There is not an official list. I would recommend using this list until one specifically for App Engine is created.
Google restricts access to some of its business services in certain countries or regions, such as Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
I would like to create an app where users can get directions but they can select to avoid highways and/or roads/highways with a certain name . On google maps you can easily tell the difference between highways(orange), main routes(yellow), and roads(white) so google must be able to differentiate between them. Also the roads and highways are all named in google maps. I would like to give the user the ability to refine their directions search by deleting highways, routes, rural roads, and/or named roads if they so choose. Can someone point me in the right direction (no pun intended) on making this idea feasible? Also does the google maps api allow us access to tweaking how directions are calculated? Thanks.
The API will let you avoid highways or tolls, but not specifically named routes. See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/#DirectionsRequests
We have developed an application in Salesforce.com to geocode and display account information (address information) on Google Maps within Salesforce.com. We have around 750k addresses for the initial (one-time) geocoding process (static address data), as we store the lat/lon with the account.
Is their any way to get this geocoded done in one 'batch' as we seem to hit the daily allowance of request per day (3k)?
Thanks for your support and feedback.
If you'd like to use Google to do this and you need to precompute the lat/lon coordinates, you'll need to upgrade to the Google Maps API for Business. The table on that link provides a detailed overview of the limit differences, and I suspect that the terms of use may also be more in line with what you're developing too.
If your goal is to create a Google Map from the addresses, you may also consider just passing the address data instead of the latitude and longitude. Their static maps will work fine as long as you know which locations that you'd like to use on the map, you don't have too many locations in one map and you don't need interactivity. Otherwise, you should use the javascript API and their documentation is very good for that.
If you don't know which locations you'd like to use on the map, you could use the lat/lon coordinates of their zip codes (which are freely available) to create a view port.
If you'd like a static map of the locations (whether or not you precompute the lat/lon), I'd recommend taking a look at the apexgooglestaticmap Github repository. It makes it quite easy to make certain types of static Google maps in APEX and VisualForce. Here's an example from that README:
APEX Controller
String[] homes = new String[]{'Albany, NY','Wellesley, MA','New York, NY','Pittsburgh, PA','01945','Ann Arbor, MI','Chicago, IL'};
GoogleStaticMap.MapPath moves = new GoogleStaticMap.MapPath(homes).color('0x000000ff');
String movesUrl = new GoogleStaticMap().addPath(moves).url;
Visualforce Page
<apex:image value="{!movesUrl}">
Google Maps URL and Image
https://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?sensor=false&size=500x350&markers=label:0%7CAlbany%2C+NY&markers=label:1%7CWellesley%2C+MA&markers=label:2%7CNew+York%2C+NY&markers=label:3%7CPittsburgh%2C+PA&markers=label:4%7C01945&markers=label:5%7CAnn+Arbor%2C+MI&markers=label:6%7CChicago%2C+IL&markers=label:0%7CAlbany%2C+NY&markers=label:1%7CWellesley%2C+MA&markers=label:2%7CNew+York%2C+NY&markers=label:3%7CPittsburgh%2C+PA&markers=label:4%7C01945&markers=label:5%7CAnn+Arbor%2C+MI&markers=label:6%7CChicago%2C+IL&path=weight:5%7Ccolor:0x000000ff%7CAlbany%2C+NY%7CWellesley%2C+MA%7CNew+York%2C+NY%7CPittsburgh%2C+PA%7C01945%7CAnn+Arbor%2C+MI%7CChicago%2C+IL&
There are also many other geocoding APIs available. They each have their own terms of service, so make sure that your application matches the acceptable uses before you build anything with them. I've personally used PCMiler Web Services with success, and Geonames for reverse geocoding (they have a number of other great features too).
Google only allows that max per IP Address. If you were able to maximize the locations you were doing them from, max out at work, home or maybe your local starbucks, you could be able to hit the goal easily. If you have more than 250 employees just assign the 'homework' of going home and geocoding it! Spread the wealth, and the fun, of geocoding!
The other solution is using Google Maps API For Business, which allows you to do a max of 100,000 requests per day. For more information look at: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ ; for more information specifically on Geoogle Maps API For Business: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/business/index.html
I use this geocoder, and add my list and use yahoo to get the lat and long.
We have FindNearby installed, so once I get all the addresses geo-coded, I add them back into my excel worksheet in the respective column that has the Record ID. Since we use FindNearby, I have to add a column that is titled Mapping Status, and all cells under this say Located. I used ApexData loader to mass upload into SF. Note, geocoder has a limit of only 1000 records at a single "code" click, but it has no limit of how many lists you can process per day.
I changes some code to use Bing map services instead of google. There limits are based on keys and are much larger. Also when the key hits its max requests, then you can just get a new free key and apply it.
I'm writing a web application that will track incoming traffic to a website and track the origin of the traffic and its behaviour on our site, so that we can get some idea of the return on investment of our marketing campaigns, the actual keywords and their value to us (rather than to google) and the lost traffic, and our lost spend.
Part of this involves looking at the referrer information from the browser on the first page visited. Referrers like Google Organic and Google Paid Search are easy to identify using regex matching to look for particular strings within the referrer (I'm using php's $_SERVER). The same is true for Bing, Ask, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook.
But, I'm having a problem with one particular source - Google Content Network. Sometimes traffic coming from these ads has a nice link that begins http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?
which is obviously easy to code for. On the other hand, the traffic from sites showing our ads sometimes comes with the Referrer of the site itself as though it were a hard coded link. This second hard coded type link is causing problems as we can't differentiate it from regular referred traffic.
So, other than tagging the urls our ads are pointing to with something like '?source=gcn', or scraping the referring page to look for a hard coded link or a google ads iframe, has anyone got any magic sauce to overcome this issue?
Thanks in advance
Ross
So, it seems I've been looking in completely the wrong place for a solution to this.
In a nutshell, the problem is that I need to access Google PPC information regarding visitors to my site but google doesn't always pass this information along in the referrer and certainly is problematic where Display Network appears on a page using javascript to insert it directly into the dom.
Where should I have been looking? Google Analytics. The __utmz cookie contains a wealth of information regarding the route that traffic got the site... including whether they came via PPC / Organic or Display Network and the search terms (where applicable) that got them there.
See the following page for more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html
Who'd have thought! Anyway, there is some great documentation on what the cookies do and how they are constructed. Problem Solved.
Ross