Re: st: traveltime, error in Stata 12

["Dimitriy V. Masterov" <dvmaster@gmail.com>]

Does not work in Stata 13 as written.

I would try traveltime3. It might work, especially with coordinates
that are not in the middle of the Indian ocean.

DVM


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Lucas Ferreira Mation
<lucasmation@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting an error when running the user written "traveltime"
> function, which is a wrapper for the googleMaps API. This code
> replicates the error:
>
> clear
> ssc install traveltime, replace
> input ///
> X_start Y_start X_end Y_end
> -60.670533 2.816682 -61.314022 2.993823
> -60.670533 2.816682 -59.878007 3.350289
> end
> traveltime, start_x(X_start) start_y(Y_start) end_x(X_end)
> end_y(Y_end) mode(1) km
>
> I get the error:
>
> "
> file http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&output=dragdir&saddr=2.816682100296021,-60.6705322265625&daddr=2.993823051452637,-61.31402206420898&dirflg=
> not found
> server says file temporarily redirected to
> https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&output=dragdir&saddr=2.816682100296021,-60.6705322265625&daddr=2.993823051452637,
>> -61.31402206420898&dirflg=
> "
>
> I'm assuming this error should be because of the "httpS" protocol, not
> supported in stata 12, but supported in stata 13. Correct? Could
> someone test if the snippet of code above works on stata 13?
>
> any workarounds (apart from upgrading to Stata 13, which is becoming
> more and more urgent...)?
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