How could your customer, a ride-sharing service, make use of the Directions API?
- Optimize the provided route by automatically rearranging the waypoints in a more efficient order, influence routes with stopover and pass through points, and choose faster routes or reallocate deliveries to workers based on real-time traffic.
- Find out how fast they are traveling, add street view panoramas to their application, add an image to a map, and encode a sequence of latitude/longitude coordinates (LatLngs) into an encoded path string, and decode an encoded path string into a sequence of LatLngs.
- Optimize the street view by automatically rearranging the way the camera is looking, influence routes with speed limit and police known points, and choose faster routes or reallocate deliveries to workers based on traffic data from obtained over the last year.
- Find out how fast they are traveling, add street view panoramas to their application, customize images to a map, and find the latitude/longitude coordinates for a given address (geocoding), or convert the latitude/longitude coordinates of a geographic location to an address (reverse geocoding).