Thread: Getting Distance between two addresses

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Originally Posted by Shockwave786

...whether it can be done...

I think I would work on this part before getting too deep into implementation details.

I mean, forget Java for a minute. Forget programming. Forget everything except the problem:

If you wanted to give someone driving instructions to get from, say, 950 Mission Street in San Francisco, California, to, say, 1807 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California, how would you do it? If you can't figure out this part, then there's not much use in wasting a lot of time learning some programming language just for this task, right?

Well since I don't live in San Francisco or Oakland, I don't know how to get from Point A to Point B, but I do know how to get driving instructions from Google or Bing or MapQuest or ...

So, before trying to figure out how I would create the driving instructions, I might try one of those sites to see what they present.

Wow! It's all there: How to get from Point A to Point B. Amazing!

Now, here's the thing. It took hundreds of programmers (thousands, probably) many man-hours (thousands, hundreds of thousands, whatever) to create the applications and probably even more resources to create a data base that can be used to tell us how to get from Point A to Point B for just about anywhere on the planet.

How the heck could anyone do that as a homework assignment? (That's a rhetorical question. I don't need to see your answer. The site's swear filter would probably redact most of your response anyhow.)

Well, here's what I might do: I would see if there were any references on the web that talked about embedding driving instructions into a Java program.

A couple of potentially useful hits:

Getting Started with Bing Maps in Java

Google Maps API

Etc.


Now, it still might be pretty hairy for a beginning Java programmer to implement a program using stuff like that, but maybe it gives you something to be thinking about as you work your way through Java tutorials or other reference material.


Cheers!

Z