How to find places along the route using google map api?

Sanju picture Sanju · Apr 8, 2013 · Viewed 28.2k times · Source

Can you please let me know if it is possible to get list of all places for example Gas Stations along Route Between Origin and Destination in Google Maps API? Here is a link that I am trying to list all Gas Stations or Rest areas ( or any of Google Maps API Supported Place Types)between two points ans based on a Direction supported route.

and this my code so far:

var directionsDisplay;
var directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService();
var map;
var haight = new google.maps.LatLng(49.216364,-122.811897);
var oceanBeach = new google.maps.LatLng(50.131446,-119.506838);

function initialize() {
  directionsDisplay = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer();
  var mapOptions = {
  zoom: 14,
  mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
  center: haight
}
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), mapOptions);
  directionsDisplay.setMap(map);

    calcRoute();
 }

function calcRoute() {
  var request = {
  origin: haight,
  destination: oceanBeach,
  travelMode: google.maps.TravelMode.DRIVING
  };
  directionsService.route(request, function(response, status) {
   if (status == google.maps.DirectionsStatus.OK) {
       directionsDisplay.setDirections(response);
      }
 });
}

google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);

Edited Part:

// Make the directions request
  directionService.route(request, function(result, status) {
    if (status == google.maps.DirectionsStatus.OK) {
      directionsRenderer.setDirections(result);

      // Box around the overview path of the first route
      var path = result.routes[0].overview_path;
      var boxes = routeBoxer.box(path, distance);
      drawBoxes(boxes);
    } else {
      alert("Directions query failed: " + status);
    }

      for (var i = 0; i < boxes.length; i++) {
  var bounds = box[i];
  // Perform search over this bounds 
}



  });
}

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