Best Route

What is it?

Best Route is the best way to get a set of addresses ordered for the best route.

License it for your own site

If you're interested in using Best Route for your own site, we'd love it.

What does it cost?

For now, the service is free for up to 100 hits to our site per day and only for 1 starting point and up to 4 destination points per hit.

Anything above that limit and you'll need to contact us to work out a deal. We're pretty generous with our pricing, so go on. Shoot us an email.

How can I put it on my site?

For now, we have an API which you can use. If you don't know how to use an API, let us know. We would love to have a suite of things to make for your own site, but we're just not sure what you'd like. Email us and let us know what you'd like to have built and we'll see what we can do.

Implement it on your own site

REST XML API

Better documentation for the REST API will be coming soon. It will be so easy and pretty, you'll think you were in heaven (if you're a coder).

Soon the "route" method will return the actual directions as well. Just you wait. It will be beautiful.

Method

route

Returns what you sent to us and what we think the best ordered route is. We also return links to maps and directions

Arguments

start_address

The starting point for the route

destinations

A pipe delimited list of destination addresses

Example Request

http://project222.com/bestroute/api/route?start_address=4175 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA&destinations=9191 Towne Centre Dr, San Diego, CA|711 University Ave, San Diego, CA

Map

One of the things we'll be doing is generating the Google map with the pin points for you, if you'd like to use it. It comes all prettified up so you can just drop it into an iframe if that's the easiest for you.

Example URL

http://project222.com/bestroute/api/map?start_address=4175 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA&destinations=9191 Towne Centre Dr, San Diego, CA|711 University Ave, San Diego, CA

Directions

We figured the set of directions would be helpful to be able to put into an iframe too, so we built a page that generates the set of directions for you as well. It's all on one page, so it should be pretty easy to use.

Example URL

http://project222.com/bestroute/api/directions?start_address=4175 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA&destinations=9191 Towne Centre Dr, San Diego, CA|711 University Ave, San Diego, CA

Map and Directions

We hate being redundant, so we figured this might help you out too. We put them both on the same page, which links the directions to the map with neato Google javascripty goodness. Feel free to use it in an iframe if you so desire.

Example URL

http://project222.com/bestroute/api/map_and_directions?start_address=4175 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA&destinations=9191 Towne Centre Dr, San Diego, CA|711 University Ave, San Diego, CA