Have you seen this example http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/03/aint-no-mountain-high-enough.html
On Jul 27, 10:44 am, wcrtr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get the elevation of a number of points from the > Elevation API. > > Since I'm trying to get the elevation for about 200-300 points at one > time, doing a normal GET request seems silly, and becomes too long at > a certain point. > > However, there are no POST examples on the website, and if I try to do > something like: > > data = {'sensor': 'false', 'path': '40.714728,-73.998672|34,-118', > 'samples': 2} > encoded = urllib.urlencode(data) > response = urllib.urlopen('http://maps.google.com/maps/api/elevation/ > json', encoded) > print response.read() > > I'm just getting a bad request response. If I do the same request, > but with a GET vs. a POST > > response = urllib.urlopen('http://maps.google.com/maps/api/elevation/ > json?%s' % encoded) > > then it returns the json no problem... > > Any trick to doing a POST to the service? > > thanks for any reply, > w -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
