Google Maps

with google maps modules in make, you can search for places or get directions, location, elevation, roads, or static map images in your google maps account to use the google maps modules, you must have a google account and billing enabled in the google cloud platform you can create an account at accounts google com refer to the google maps api documentation for a list of available endpoints connect google maps to make to establish the connection, you must google maps docid\ th6msn7jh06lgtwnttxww google maps docid\ th6msn7jh06lgtwnttxww create and configure a google cloud platform project for google maps before you establish the connection in make, you must create and configure a project in the google cloud platform to obtain your api key your google account must have cloud billing set up in order to enable the required apis in your project for information regarding how to create and manage cloud billing, see google's manage your cloud billing account guide create a google cloud platform project for google maps to create a google cloud platform project log in to the google cloud platform using your google credentials on the welcome page, click create or select a project > new project enter a project name and select the location for your project click create in the top menu, check if your new project is selected in the select a project dropdown if not, select the project you just created to create a new project or work in the existing one, you need to have the serviceusage services enable permission if you don’t have this permission, ask the google cloud platform project owner or project iam admin to grant it to you enable apis for google maps to enable the required apis open the left navigation menu and go to apis & services > library search for the following apis for more information on google web service apis, refer to the google maps platform api documentation click on the relevant api, then click enable obtain your google maps api key to obtain your api key in the left sidebar, click apis & services > credentials click + create credentials > api key copy your api key value shown and store it in a safe place you will use this value in the api key field in make establish the connection with google maps in make to establish the connection in make log in to your make account, add a google maps module to your {{scenario singular lowercase}} , and click create a connection optional in the connection name field, enter a name for the connection in the api key field, enter the value you copied in the google maps docid\ th6msn7jh06lgtwnttxww above click save if prompted, authenticate your account and confirm access you have successfully established the connection you can now edit your {{scenario singular lowercase}} and add more google maps modules if your connection requires reauthorization at any point, follow the connection renewal steps here https //help make com/connect an application#o qjq build google maps {{scenario plural}} after connecting the app, you can perform the following actions search map search for places get a map get directions origin if you enter an address, the service geocodes the string and converts it to a latitude/longitude coordinate to calculate directions 24+sussex+drive+ottawa+on if you enter coordinates, they are used unchanged to calculate directions ensure that no space exists between the latitude and longitude values 41 43206, 81 38992 place ids must be prefixed with place id you can retrieve place ids from the get a location module and the search for places module for more about place ids, see the place id overview place id\ chij3s jxmauemsruciawtf4mze plus codes must be formatted as a global code or a compound code format plus codes as shown here (plus signs are url escaped to %2b and spaces are url escaped to %20 ) global code is a 4 character area code and a 6 character or longer local code ( 849vcwc8+r9 is 849vcwc8%2br9 ) \ compound code is a 6 character or longer local code with an explicit location (cwc8+r9 mountain view, ca, usa is cwc8%2br9%20mountain%20view%20ca%20usa ) destination enter the address, textual latitude/longitude value, or place id to which you wish to calculate directions the options for the destination are the same as for the origin (described above) departure time / arrival time enter the desired time of departure or arrival you can specify the time using one of the options from the supported date and time formats list alternatively, you can specify a value of now, which sets the departure time to the current time (correct to the nearest second) applies when the transit or driving option is selected in the travel mode field get a location get a timezone note for date and time , enter the time to determine whether or not daylight savings should be applied, based on the time zone of the location get an elevation get a distance matrix origin if you enter an address, the service geocodes the string and converts it to a latitude/longitude coordinate to calculate directions 24+sussex+drive+ottawa+on if you enter coordinates, they are used unchanged to calculate directions ensure that no space exists between the latitude and longitude values 41 43206, 81 38992 place ids must be prefixed with place id you can retrieve place ids from the get a location module and the search for places module for more about place ids, see the place id overview place id\ chij3s jxmauemsruciawtf4mz plus codes must be formatted as a global code or a compound code format plus codes as shown here (plus signs are url escaped to %2b and spaces are url escaped to %20 ) global code is a 4 character area code and a 6 character or longer local code (849vcwc8+r9 is 849vcwc8%2br9) compound code is a 6 character or longer local code with an explicit location (cwc8+r9 mountain view, ca, usa is cwc8%2br9%20mountain%20view%20ca%20usa ) destination enter the address, textual latitude/longitude value, or place id to which you wish to calculate directions the options for the destination are the same as for the origin (described above) departure time / arrival time enter the desired time of departure or arrival you can specify the time using one of the options from the supported date and time formats list alternatively, you can specify a value of now, which sets the departure time to the current time (correct to the nearest second) applies when the transit or driving option is selected in the travel mode field get roads note the speed limit service is available to all customers with an asset tracking license for google maps platform premium plan customers who transitioned to pay as you go pricing, the feature remains active get a static map image there are 4 map types roadmap (default), satellite , terrain , and hybrid (a hybrid of satellite and roadmap) other make an api call getting the current time information the get time zone information trigger allows you to get the local time for any location on earth, for any date in the past the trigger returns two elements the time zone offset from utc (in seconds) and the offset for the daylight savings time from utc (in seconds) to get the current local time of a given location, you need to calculate the sum of both values however, the result refers to the utc to translate the utc to your local time, you need to add or subtract the time zone difference between utc and your location for example, let's say, you are in prague and you want to know the current local time (9 6 2014) in new york the trigger get time zone information returns the time zone offset from utc 18000 and the daylight savings offset from utc 3600 the sum of both values is 14400 seconds which is 4 hours from utc the result you get when repeating the same steps for prague is +2 hours from utc the time difference between prague and new york is +6 hours