How can we troubleshoot the driving directions?

[mapicurious.com]

I keep getting an Oops.

This is my form:
<form id="dirsForm" action="http://widget.ulocate.com/jin/
getdirection.jin" method="GET">
<input type="hidden" id="olat" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" id="olng" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" id="dlat" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" id="dlng" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" id="width" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" id="height" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" id="back" value="1"/>
</form>

I "should" be submitting O&D data to the form via the JS routine, but
I've got no way to tell.

Can someone verify what my app is posting back to the
getdirection.jin?

Thanks,

Brad

[wue]

Brad,

we don't see anything wrong with your code and /getdirection.jin is
working fine. Are you still having this problem?
Maybe check that the lat/lng you pass are valid and not in the middle
of nowhere.

Cheers,
Markus

[mapicurious.com]

I'll do that.

Another related question:

1. load(pos_lat); and load(pos_lng); - Do they return decimal lat and
lng values?

Thanks,

Brad

[Gil Cunningham]

Brad-
First, should be ...

var lat = load("pos_lat");
var lng = load("pos_lng");

Those calls both return strings, not floating point (decimal) values.

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[mapicurious.com]

Is that something we need to convert, or is there a better function to
return decimal values?

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[Gil Cunningham]

You will need to convert those. Internally, we do it on the server
side as the scripting can be a bit tricky. In the next release we
will have a parseFloat(), which returns a float, similiar to
parseInt() today.