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Shannon Yeh
8,987 PointsReally stuck on this ...is there an error??
so the quesiton is asking :
Set the query parameter of "markers" to equal the URL encoded address of "622 E Washington Street, Suite 240, Orlando, FL 32801"
somehow this code is wrong...i dont know why..i even tried removing the comma but still says "markers invalid"
Set the query parameter of "markers" to equal the URL encoded address of "622 E Washington Street, Suite 240, Orlando, FL 32801"
2 Answers
Shannon Yeh
8,987 Pointsfigured it out. apparently i had to put all commas in place for it to work.
Richard Crawford-Wilson
6,094 PointsCheck out the Google Map API documentation herre: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#Markers
I'll give you a tip. You can't have spaces in a URL. Here is an example static map link:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Berkeley,CA&zoom=14&size=400x400&sensor=false
The way google represents spaces, e.g.
staticmap?markers=Blah blah blah
is substituting a space with a +
staticmap?markers=Blah+blah+blah
If you went to the first link it would be the same as going to: staticmap?markers=Blah, because there are no spaces in URL's.
Try the + for the google maps API. The proper URL encode substitution is %20 for a space though. You can check out how that works here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
Though each API may handle spaces differently.
Regards,
Richard