# Waze like functionality for a trade fair app

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/waze-like-functionality-for-a-trade-fair-app/1908341
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [June 2, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/waze-like-functionality-for-a-trade-fair-app/1908341 "2022-06-02T18:24:03Z")
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### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/waze-like-functionality-for-a-trade-fair-app/1908341/4 "2022-06-03T07:47:20Z")

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You should be able to do this with the [Google Directions API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/overview). But it’s not a fast/simple process to integrate that in Thunkable. The first API I tried to integrate into Thunkable took me about ten hours to understand and get working. But if you are familiar with JSON or APIs already, it might take you less time.

Once you have successfully accessed the API from Thunkable, you might find this topic interesting:

> [@Google directions API and lists](https://community.thunkable.com/t/google-directions-api-and-lists/996664):
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> I would appreciate some help with a couple of issues I am stuck on. I have managed to get a response from the Google directions API where I Have a start location, a way point and a destination. I want to use the lat and lng values returned to plot a polylione on a map. My problems are, I dont know how to parse the response to get all the lat and lng values returned. I can see the “path” through the response is routes - legs - steps but there are two steps sections and I dont know how to incl…

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