For
displaying directions with route details first we need latitude and longitude
of two locations.
Location
1 is act as source point and location 2 is destination point.
I
am considering
·
Source Location -
28.67854, 77.23938 - Red Fort, New Delhi, India
·
Destiation Location -
27.175114, 78.042154 – Taj Mahal, Agra
UI Design:-
Here
is a screenshot of Google map from Red Fort to Tajmahal
We
need to develop similar webpage with same details in ASP.NET
How
to do this in ASP.NET using C#?
Google
team already developed API for map and its functionality. These API works with
JQuery or Javascript.
C# Code
·
Create Location Entity
class to store Latitude and Longitude
public class LocationInfo
{
public string Latitude { get;
set; }
public string Longitude { get;
set; }
}
·
Create one Helper class
for creating JSON string and registering Javascript.
Include namespcase “using
System.Web.Script.Serialization;” in your code for accessing “JavaScriptSerializer” class
public static
class Helper
{
/// <summary>
/// Generates Json for
specific object instance
/// </summary>
/// <param name="instance">Instance to be converted to Json </param>
/// <param name="recursionDepth">Recursion depth optional paramter</param>
/// <returns>Json for
specific object instance</returns>
public static string ToJson(this object instance, int
recursionDepth) {
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
serializer.RecursionLimit = recursionDepth;
return serializer.Serialize(instance);
}
/// <summary>
/// Register java script
/// </summary>
/// <param name="script"></param>
/// <param name="control"></param>
public static void BindClientScript(string
script, Control control)
{
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(control, typeof(Page), Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), script, true);
}
}
·
Get source and destination
location details in entity class from database [Leaving database access part]
//Source
Location - Red Fort, New Delhi, India
LocationInfo
sourceLocation = new LocationInfo()
{ Latitude = "28.67854", Longitude
= "77.23938" };
//Destiation
Location - 27.175114, 78.042154 – Taj Mahal, Agra
LocationInfo
destinationLocation = new LocationInfo() { Latitude = "27.175114", Longitude = "78.042154" };
·
Convert this location
entities into its JSON representation as below
string
jsonSourceResponse = Helper.ToJson(sourceLocation,
100);
string
jsonDestinationResponse = Helper.ToJson(destinationLocation,
100);
·
Register javascript
function by passing this Json string as below
string script = "PushLocationData(" + jsonSourceResponse
+ "," + jsonDestinationResponse + ");";
Helper.BindClientScript(script,
this);
ASPX
·
First we need two
javascript file. You don’t need to download these file
Map
functionality - http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false
JQuery
- https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js
·
So its declaration in ASPX
file is as below
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
·
Create javascript function
to get the JSON string and hold it in javascript global variable as
source = null;
destination = null;
function
PushLocationData(objsource, objdestination) {
source = objsource;
destination = objdestination;
}
·
Create google maps
direction service object as
directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService();
·
Get the latitude and
longitude of source and destination location [Like
X,Y co-ordinates in graph in mathematics]
sourceLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(source.Latitude,
source.Longitude);
destinationLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(destination.Latitude,
destination.Longitude);
·
Set different option of
maps like zoom level, alignment of point in map, map type, navigation control
as
var mapOptions
= {
zoom: 15,
center: myLatLng,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
navigationControl: true
};
·
Create map object with all
specified optins and show in DIV as below
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), mapOptions);
·
Specify the way you want
directions on google maps as below
directionsRenderer = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer({
'map':
map,
'draggable':
false,
'hideRouteList':
true,
'suppressMarkers':
true
});
·
Draw route from source to destination
location in driving mode on maps. With
each route we will get directions informations such as route description, distance,
duration etc. as below
directionsService.route({
'origin':
sourceLatLng,
'destination':
destinationLatLng,
'travelMode':
'DRIVING'
},
function(directions,
status) {
for (var i = 0; i < directions.routes.length; i++) {
var
thisRoute = directions.routes[i];
for
(var j = 0; j < thisRoute.legs.length; j++)
{
var
thisLeg = thisRoute.legs[j];
var
useDistance = thisLeg.distance.text;
var
useDuration = thisLeg.duration.text;
var
directionsHTML = '';
for
(var k = 0; k < thisLeg.steps.length; k++) {
var
thisStep = thisLeg.steps[k];
directionsHTML += '<div>' + (k + 1) + '.
' + thisStep.instructions + '<BR/>-------------------'
+ thisStep.distance.text + '</div>';
directionsHTML += '<div></div>';
}
$('#total_distance').html(useDistance);
$('#total_duration').html(useDuration);
$('#direction_steps').append(directionsHTML);
}
}
directionsRenderer.setDirections(directions);
}
);
Here
is complete C# code and ASPX. Just copy and paste below code and bingooooo here
you go
C# Code
public partial class GoogleDirections : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected
void Page_Load(object
sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Source
Location - Red Fort, New Delhi, India
LocationInfo
sourceLocation = new LocationInfo()
{ Latitude = "28.67854", Longitude
= "77.23938" };
//Destiation
Location - 27.175114, 78.042154 – Taj Mahal, Agra
LocationInfo
destinationLocation = new LocationInfo() { Latitude = "27.175114", Longitude = "78.042154" };
string
jsonSourceResponse = Helper.ToJson(sourceLocation,
100);
string
jsonDestinationResponse = Helper.ToJson(destinationLocation,
100);
string
script = "PushLocationData(" +
jsonSourceResponse + "," +
jsonDestinationResponse + ");";
Helper.BindClientScript(script,
this);
}
}
public class LocationInfo
{
public string Latitude { get;
set; }
public string Longitude { get;
set; }
}
public static class Helper
{
/// <summary>
/// Generates Json for specific object instance
/// </summary>
/// <param
name="instance">Instance to be
converted to Json </param>
/// <param
name="recursionDepth">Recursion
depth optional paramter</param>
/// <returns>Json for specific object instance</returns>
public static string ToJson(this object instance,
int recursionDepth)
{
JavaScriptSerializer
serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
serializer.RecursionLimit =
recursionDepth;
return
serializer.Serialize(instance);
}
/// <summary>
/// Register java script
/// </summary>
/// <param
name="script"></param>
/// <param
name="control"></param>
public static void
BindClientScript(string script, Control control)
{
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(control,
typeof(Page),
Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), script, true);
}
}
ASPX
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Google
Directions with route info</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
source = null;
destination = null;
function
PushLocationData(objsource, objdestination) {
source = objsource;
destination = objdestination;
}
$(document).ready(function() {
directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService();
//Source
Location - Red Fort, New Delhi, India
sourceLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(source.Latitude,
source.Longitude);
//Destiation
Location - 27.175114, 78.042154 – Taj Mahal, Agra
destinationLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(destination.Latitude,
destination.Longitude);
//set the
map options
var
mapOptions = {
zoom: 20,
center: destinationLatLng,
mapTypeId:
google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
navigationControl: true
};
//create
the map object
map = new
google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"),
mapOptions);
directionsRenderer = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer({
'map':
map,
'draggable':
false,
'hideRouteList':
true,
'suppressMarkers':
true
});
directionsService.route({
'origin':
sourceLatLng,
'destination':
destinationLatLng,
'travelMode':
'DRIVING'
},
function(directions,
status) {
for
(var i = 0; i < directions.routes.length;
i++) {
var
thisRoute = directions.routes[i];
for
(var j = 0; j < thisRoute.legs.length; j++)
{
var thisLeg = thisRoute.legs[j];
var useDistance = thisLeg.distance.text;
var useDuration = thisLeg.duration.text;
var directionsHTML = '';
for (var k = 0; k <
thisLeg.steps.length; k++) {
var thisStep = thisLeg.steps[k];
directionsHTML += '<div>' + (k + 1) + '.
' + thisStep.instructions + '<BR/>-------------------'
+ thisStep.distance.text + '</div>';
directionsHTML += '<div></div>';
}
$('#total_distance').html(useDistance);
$('#total_duration').html(useDuration);
$('#direction_steps').append(directionsHTML);
}
}
directionsRenderer.setDirections(directions);
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<table style="border: thin solid #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"
width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="40%">
<div id="direction_steps_holder" style="width: 100%">
<div>
<b>Directions
to TajMahal, Agra (<span
id="total_distance"></span> - about <span
id="total_duration"></span>) </b>
</div>
<div id="direction_steps">
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<div id="map_canvas" style="width: 750px; height: 700px;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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