Get distance and time in list of addresses

miguel · by **miguel** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:40 am

Hi, in my applicattion I'm trying to get the distance and time from my destination to addresses that are in contacts and put the result in a list view. (like this http://androidpt.com/images/fbfiles/ima ... 100108.png )

I've tried the aproach of reading this URL http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&s ... output=kml in kml format and then extract the info that I want (Example: Distance: 44.7km (about 54mins)).

The problem is that it takes about one second to process one address. So if I've 20 contacts with addresses it will take 20seconds.

Is there another way to accomplish what i'm pretending to doing?

Here is my code:

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StringBuilder urlString = new StringBuilder();
 
urlString.append("http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en");
 
urlString.append("&saddr=");//my location
 
urlString.append(mylocation);
 
urlString.append("&daddr=");//contact address
 
urlString.append(contactAddress);
 
urlString.append("&ie=UTF8&0&om=0&output=kml");
 
Document doc = null;
 
HttpURLConnection urlConnection= null;
 
URL url = new URL(urlString.toString());
 
urlConnection=(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
 
try {
 
        urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
 
} catch (ProtocolException e) {
 
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
 
                        e.printStackTrace();
 
}
 
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
 
urlConnection.setDoInput(true);
 
urlConnection.connect(); 
 
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
 
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
 
doc = db.parse(urlConnection.getInputStream());
 
Element topElement = doc.getDocumentElement();
 
NodeList description = topElement.getElementsByTagName("description");
 
Element result = (Element) description.item(placemark.getLength()-1);
 
String distanceAndTime = route.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();                
 
String[] splitResult = distanceAndTime.split("<br/>");
 
distanceAndTime = splitResult[0].replace(" "," ");
Parsed in 0.036 seconds,  using GeSHi 1.0.8.4

Thanks in adavance

Get distance and time in list of addresses

Get distance and time in list of addresses

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