Location

You can use the Google Mirror API to observe the user's location in timeline items, request their last known location directly, and subscribe to periodic location updates. You can also deliver pre-rendered map images in timeline cards by giving the Mirror API the coordinates to draw.

Note: Retrieving users' location requires the additional https://www.googleapis.com/auth/glass.location scope.

Retrieving the latest known location

To retrieve the latest known location for the current user, send a GET request to the REST endpoint:

Raw HTTP

GET /mirror/v1/locations/ HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer {auth token}

Subscribing to location updates

Similar to subscribing to timeline updates, you can subscribe to location updates by subscribing to the locations collection.

Raw HTTP

POST /mirror/v1/subscriptions HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer {auth token}
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: {length}

{
  "collection": "locations",
  "userToken": "harold_penguin",
  "verifyToken": "random_hash_to_verify_referer",
  "callbackUrl": "https://example.com/notify/callback"
}

Note: At this time, location notifications are sent every 10 minutes.

Rendering maps on timeline cards

The Google Mirror API can render maps for you and overlay markers and lines to signify important places and paths. Use the glass://map URI to request a map. Here's an example:

<img src="glass://map?w=width&h=height&marker=0;latitude,longitude&marker=1;latitude,longitude&polyline=;latitude,longitude,latitude,longitude"
  width="width"
  height="height"/>

Note: Always specify the width and height of the image in the <img> tag as well. This prevents reflows as the map image is being rendered.

Here is a description of required parameters:

• w - The width in pixels of the returned map image
• h - The height in pixels of the returned map image

Only one of the items in the following list are additionally required, but you can specify all of them:

• center and zoom - The center (latitude,longitude) of the map to render at and the zoom level. See Zoom Levels for more information.
• marker - Specify the pin markers to draw at the specified coordinates. The marker parameter takes a marker type (0 indicates a pin and 1, the current location), the latitude coordinate, and the longitude coordinate. The map automatically centers and zooms around the markers you create if you don't explicitly specify center and zoom.
• polyline - Specify the polyline coordinates to represent a path on the map. Each polyline consists of a width and color followed by the vertices in the polyline. For example: polyline=8,ffff0000;47.6,-122.34,47.62,-122.40 specifies an 8-pixel wide red line between (47.6,-122.34) and (47.62,-122.40). The map is automatically centered and zoomed to fit the polyline if you don't explicitly specify center and zoom.

The following example shows a best practice of how to display a map image with some text and what it looks like:

<article>
  <figure>
    <img src="glass://map?w=240&h=360&marker=0;42.369590,
      -71.107132&marker=1;42.36254,-71.08726&polyline=;42.36254,
      -71.08726,42.36297,-71.09364,42.36579,-71.09208,42.3697,
      -71.102,42.37105,-71.10104,42.37067,-71.1001,42.36561,
      -71.10406,42.36838,-71.10878,42.36968,-71.10703"
      height="360" width="240">
  </figure>
  <section>
    <div class="text-auto-size">
      <p class="yellow">12 minutes to home</p><p>Medium traffic on Broadway</p>
    </div>
  </section>
</article>

Note: You can omit the color and width of the polyline like in this example. The map is rendered using the default color and width in this situation.