{"id":790,"date":"2009-04-17T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-04-17T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:19:00","slug":"google-maps-driving-directions-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/google-maps-driving-directions-in-india.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps &#8211; Driving Directions in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps has finally added feature to get driving directions in India. When I first heard about it, I expected it to work only for directions between major cities and within large cities. But it turned out better than I thought. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to get any results when I searched for driving directions from Bangalore to the tiny village of Talakad. They beat me there.<\/p>\n<p>It does seem to have some shortfalls when it comes to finding directions within the city. The system doesn&#8217;t handle one-ways well. It doesn&#8217;t make good distinction between main roads and narrower roads, but simply gives the shortest path available. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the result when I searched for driving directions from Bangalore to Madikeri.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"495\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=bangalore&amp;daddr=madikeri,+Karnataka,+India&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;mra=ls&amp;sll=13.186468,75.975952&amp;sspn=3.320834,5.822754&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=12.640338,76.668091&amp;spn=1.875929,2.719116&amp;z=8&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;source=embed&amp;saddr=bangalore&amp;daddr=madikeri,+Karnataka,+India&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;mra=ls&amp;sll=13.186468,75.975952&amp;sspn=3.320834,5.822754&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=12.640338,76.668091&amp;spn=1.875929,2.719116&amp;z=8\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>To look for driving directions, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.google.com\/<\/a> and click on &#8216;Get Directions&#8217; links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps has finally added feature to get driving directions in India. When I first heard about it, I expected it to work only for directions between major cities and within large cities. But it turned out better than I thought. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to get any results when I searched for driving directions from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","tag-driving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-cK","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}