google maps static map polyline passing through lakes, river, mountains

Question

My program uses google maps directions for web Services to find a route between two points. The result is parsed and stored in variable.
This variable is then used to co

Answer 1

You need to include the polyline path between each step's start and end points (it is an encoded polyline).

From the directions web service response:

 "steps" : [
    {
       "distance" : {
          "text" : "0.3 km",
          "value" : 335
       },
       "duration" : {
          "text" : "1 min",
          "value" : 52
       },
       "end_location" : {
          "lat" : -22.9772355,
          "lng" : -43.23076390000001
       },
       "html_instructions" : "Head \u003cb\u003enortheast\u003c/b\u003e on \u003cb\u003eR. Marquês de São Vicente\u003c/b\u003e",
       "polyline" : {
          "points" : "r}fkCna{fGyBaDMSMSOUMUCMAOOgAEe@Co@?o@?YAWEk@?G"
       },
       "start_location" : {
          "lat" : -22.9783362,
          "lng" : -43.2336781
       },
       "travel_mode" : "DRIVING"
     },
     // ...

Including all the step polylines (and encoding the polyline) works for me

jsfiddle creating a URL for the static map from the web service response