hrm... thanks for the link... I just checked it out and it seems like it would help for a javascript implementation, since it uses the abstracted ElevationService...
But still wondering what's going on behind the scenes with the http request so I could construct my own post request from python. does that make sense? should I try sniffing the request from the javascript api to see what the request looks like? thanks for any add'l pointers. w On Jul 27, 1:45 pm, Grok Lobster <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you seen this example > > http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/03/aint-no-mountain-high... > > 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.
