We could not calculate directions between Place A and Place B

[Khaled Jendi]

hi,

I am doing a project to cover all routs between cities of arabian gulf
region, I got everything is alright and I can draw driving routes for
cites,
but one of these counties (Oman) i couldn't draw any driving route
between any two cities in Sultanate of Oman
I was trying in main google maps website (maps.google.com) to do so,
but I got this error: We could not calculate directions between 'Place
A' and 'Place B'
where 'Place A' is first city and 'Place B' is the second city

so is there a way to solve the problem?
or is there work around?


any help is greatly appreciated

[Rossko]

> but one of these counties (Oman) i couldn't draw any driving route
> between any two cities in Sultanate of Oman

It is a FAQ
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#directions_countries
driving directions is not supported in every country of the world

[Khaled Jendi]

ok, isn't there any solution or workaround? is overlay can solve the
problem?
I need to find any solution using google maps

On Dec 28, 2:09 pm, Rossko <ros...@culzean.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> > but one of these counties (Oman) i couldn't draw any driving route
> > between any two cities in Sultanate of Oman
>

> It is a FAQhttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#directions_countries

[MymsMan]

Overlays aren't going to help.  Google doesn't have the basic data needed to provide directions.
Bing maps can provide directions in Oman so you may need to switch to their service.

[Rossko]

> I need to find any solution using google maps

I do not know of a workaround to get Directions from Google, where
Google does not support Directions.

You could create your own route network database and run your own
routing engine on it, and display your own results on Google map.

People are doing this kind of thing with OpenStreetMap, but I don't
know if OSM covers Oman very well. Example
http://www.yournavigation.org/index.php

[davie]

Hi
As geonames shows only 5 cities in Oman you could use polylines
between these.
http://www.doogal.co.uk/polylines.php could be used for this

Regards Davie