Google directions service broken?

[morci]

Hi, I'm now to Routeconverter so that could just be a misunderstanding on my side but...
When I load a track and set the viewing mode to "Route" nothing is displayed on the map. If I try to convert a positions list to a track with "Positionlist/Convert Route to Track" I get the following error: "Sorry, could not insert all waypoint./Status: ZERO_RESULT/Result: [object Object]/Retry".
To my understanding all these features make use of the routing service so maybe the problem is there. Is this the case or am I making some mistakes?

[routeconverter]

Hi morci,

ZERO_RESULT means that Googles servers could not find a route for the given positions. Please share your position list so I can investigate further.

[morci]

Hi morci,

ZERO_RESULT means that Googles servers could not find a route for the given positions. Please share your position list so I can investigate further.

Hi, thanks for the prompt reply.
I tried with several lists and I always got the same result.
This very simple, for example:

44.4833333,11.3144695,1 Via di Ravone; 11; 40135 Bologna; Italy
44.4837160,11.3164114,2 Via Felice Battaglia; 1; 40135 Bologna; Italy

[kumo]

Hi, no similar problems here:

[morci]

Hi, no similar problems here:

That IS weird:



That's Windows 8.1 with Windows Firewall disabled and Java 1.8.0_05.
Suggestions?

[kumo]

I'm at Windows 7 with Java 7 Update 55 (Build 1.7.0_55-b14).

I found >>>this<<< post in the german part of the forum.
It seems that a Windows 8.1 user reported that he got back the map after downgrade to Java 6.

[routeconverter]

Suggestions?

What is your configuration for "Extras/Options.../Plan routes for:"? If it is "Bicycling" then change it to "Driving"

[morci]

Yup, changing Plan router for: driving did the trick, thanks.

[morci]

A further question now: I'm trying to convert a route to a set of waypoint (so that I can load them in oruxmaps) but the amount of requests sent to google trigger some kind of rate limit.
Is it possible to slow down the rate of the requests?

[routeconverter]

Yes, there is a timeout of 1000 milliseconds between each directions request:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\slash\navigation\converter\gui\mapview]
"insert/Waypoints/Segment/Timeout"="1000"

When converting a route to a track, each waypoint is one directions request. And when displaying routes, there is one request for each 8 waypoints. Given that it is most likely the 2500 directions requests per ip address per day limit you're running into. Configure an insertWaypointsSegmentTimeout of 100 milliseconds and you see Google's request rate limit.