Integrating google maps into Salesforce - Starting with description of the Project we have worked upon, there’s an app we created for searching and showing Account’s location on the Map and knowing a route map from one location to another location via some locations(Checkpoints). For the requirement we used Google maps api which is in Javascript format. There are some predefined javascript functions used in the Google map api.

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Ajay Dubedi
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Description of the requirement:
Starting with description of the Project we have worked upon, there’s an app we
created for searching and showing Account’s location on the Map and knowing a route map from
one location to another location via some locations(Checkpoints).
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For the requirement we used Google maps api which is in Javascript format. There are some
predefined javascript functions used in the Google map api. We used Google Maps library whoz
source is coming from a link i.e., “https://maps.google.com/maps/api/”.
There are several Javascript functions we used here which are as follows:
Solution we came with:
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1. Function to get the current location of the User by using the browser’s
location.
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2. We created an apex class method which will take Address of the Account as a string and will return a
Geolocation for that address i.e., in Latitude and longitude of the string address passed in the function
as a parameter to it.
Suppose a string will be as shown below:
public Account accObj{get;set;}
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Now we used the below method to get the Latitude & Longitude:
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We also did authentication for Google Apis in this method by passing the Access Key like this:
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This Code will get User’s location from browser on load of the page and it will be stored in
Start as “My location”. See below:
For Directions services we used “directionsService.route(request, function(response, status)
{ }” function.
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MANY THANKS !