Software Development for Finding Current Location and Displaying a Route from the Point between Two Points by means of Google Maps API

Abstract

Knowledge of own location was always necessary for human activities related to the movement of goods, travel or military action. The task of constructing a route between two points is not new, but is relevant. Finding your own position requires solving some problems and developing certain software. Despite the large number of developed algorithms and written software, the issue of writing their own programs is open, since the development of new or implementation of existing algorithms is difficult and laborious work.

This article covers the problem of getting your own location using the Google Maps API, as well as finding route between two points. There are theoretical materials on geolocation and navigation, as well as about the technology of using the API. There has been described the software development process for finding the route on Java programming language for the Android application. Developed software gives an opportunity to set your own route between your position and any other point. You can see examples of program work in this article.