Is there any workaround? 'Via' seems to be a good alternative, but wouldn't allow the user to tell the app how long he's staying at a specific event. The app uses stopovers waypoints to allow the user to create a route.

If the request includes waypoints, prefix each waypoint with via: to influence the route but avoid stopovers. The request does not include stopover waypoints. The part of the documentation that seems to make it impossible is : Traffic information is used when all of the following apply :

I trust him, but I find it hard to believe that it's impossible to optimize a route with traffic info in mind with the Google Maps API.Īny thoughts or example that would help me out? Thanks a lot! He says it can only optimize the route taking in consideration the regular travel time, without traffic information. I asked my programmer to make sure it takes in consideration the traffic data when you press the 'Optimize my route' button, but he says it's impossible to do, based on this API documentation : If not, it will rearrange your route to make sure you don't waste time. There's a 'Optimize my route' button, that checks if the order you have entered the waypoints are the best way to save time during that trip. I am working with a programmer for an Ionic app that uses Google Maps API to allow the user to create custom routes with multiple waypoints.

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