Bug reading googlemaps link

[razor85]

Hi, I've found that RouteConverter doesn't recognize properly ulr links exported from googlemaps.
When I add intermediate way points RouteConverer behaves wrongly.
Try to open this link in web browser:

Code:

http://maps.google.pl/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Browarna+6&daddr=52.233635,21.030493+to:metro+politechnika&geocode=FW0hHQMd6MdAASlhzGmfXsweRzFXmIcda1t81A%3B%3BFRPQHAMdDKxAASllKIKz6MweRzHdMYxFTT6Srg&hl=pl&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=14&via=1&sll=52.2303,21.01581&sspn=0.032751,0.090895&ie=UTF8&z=14

and import it into RouteConverter and see the difference

[routeconverter]

Hi, I've found that RouteConverter doesn't recognize properly ulr links exported from googlemaps.

Hi razor85,

thank you for pointing that out. The problem is that the URL does not contain enough obvious information to reconstruct the gps positions properly, so RouteConverter geocodes the text strings which sometimes produces funny results like yours.

The unobvious part of your url is

geocode=FW0hHQMd6MdAASlhzGmfXsweRzFXmIcda1t81A%3B%3BFRPQHAMdDKxAASllKIKz6Mwe %E2%80%8B RzHdMYxFTT6S

which I don't know how to decode. Help greatly appreciated...

If you give more precise information for the locations like "Browarna 6, Warzawa" the geocoding might not fail - it couldn't construct an example since I cannot read the error message that came up while doing so.

[razor85]

http://mapki.com/wiki/Google_Map_Parameters
I believe that you know that well.
I really don't know how to interpret such geocode. Google maps generates it automatically.
Maybe I is good idea to suggest google to insert simple GPS position instead of this. That would be much simpler to decode.

For your information http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ properly interprets google maps encoding. As an output I've receive series of GPS coordinates. So there is a method to decode it but question is how

[routeconverter]

http://mapki.com/wiki/Google_Map_Parameters
I believe that you know that well.

Although it's currently down, I guess that's the site where the information came from.

For your information http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ properly interprets google maps encoding. As an output I've receive series of GPS coordinates. So there is a method to decode it but question is how

That's a good hint. I saw GPS coordinates in the JavaScript output of the site - probably they internally open a browser/JavaScript interpreter with the URL and use the Google Maps API to extract the data from the page?