Create Google Maps links based on coordinates

Question

How can I create Google Maps links based on coordinates? Their new basic share urls contain a lot of parameters, for example:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vetlanda,+Sweden/@57.4217311,15.0849255,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x465758d912d321b5:0x55675191e550be84?hl=en

Any ideas? Not looking to embed but just to create external links that can be shared.

Armyn

Answer 1

Why not https://www.google.com/maps/place/lat,lng I think this is the simplest way

https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.46800006494457,17.11514008755796

Acrolein

is it possible to add a zoom level ? – Bowline

@StanSokolov yes should be possibile adding to the url eG. &zoom=13 or &z=9 – Acrolein

Thanks a lot for your answer @scaisEdge. I'm looking for a solution if there's anyway for me to use the same URL you provided and open a native apps such as google MAP or IOS maps hijacking the locations for "Get Directions" purposes. Is there a quick way to do this you can suggest? – Calicle

you can easly .. use the lat, lng parameter accessing as GET parameter and the eval server side the content .. try inspect the url content server side – Acrolein

@Cole128 jus add you zoomLevel and z eg: google.com/maps/place/49.46800006494457,17.11514008755796,10z – Acrolein

@scaisEdge That link doesn't work for me, it doesn't actually bring me to the coordinates. – Igal

@Cole128 i just copy the link and work .. be sure you have proper value lat, lng,zoomz eg: 45.00, 10.00, 13z – Acrolein

I opened it with a right click. It works for you? It fails in both Chrome and Firefox for me. – Igal

Yes .. i used firefox, opera, chrome and wok .. very well. both with right click of copying .. and pasting – Acrolein

eventually try use this sintax based on place (move the map to the nearest place) with zoom www.google.com/maps/place/45°28'04.8"N+10°06'54.5"E/@45.468,10.1129502,10z – Acrolein

Answer 2

The currently accepted answer ends up adding an additional history entry in browsers at the moment as Google Maps redirects to a different URL format.

To avoid that extra entry in the browser's history, use the official Maps API url:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=latitude,longitude

This will display a marker at the latitude, longitude location as well.

If you only want to center the map (and not display a marker), use the map action:

https://www.google.com/maps/@?api=1&map_action=map&center=latitude,longitude

Turbo

Does this support setting the zoom level? – Cosme

@Cosme You can append &zoom=<zoom level> to the map action as shown in the last example (i.e. after center=.... – Turbo

Is there a link which includes both the marker and the zoom level? – Cosme

In that case you'll have to use the /place/ url which require you to format one set of the coordinates in degrees/minute/seconds format as far as I can tell: google.com/maps/place/… – Turbo

Answer 3

According to another answer, you can use following url

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.197611,120.780512

to show a pin.

Krebs

except it shows side panel I just wanted to embed the map in an inline frame or div ! would it be possible to open map but with side panel collapsed. – Streamway

@Banzy this still works, just took this scrennshot of the url in the post: i.imgur.com/flQa6dm.png – Leblanc

Answer 4

• Working in 2022
• No sidebar
• Url doesnt change
• Zoom included

Syntax:

https://www.google.com/maps/@{lat},{long},{zoom}z

Example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.123,10.123,15z

Leblanc

Answer 5

The simple and best way is to use as follows:-

https://maps.google.com/?q=LATITUDE-VALUE,LONGITUDE-VALUE

Tiv