How do I get a direct link to a place on google maps with the Place Id

Question

I have the Place Id of a place on google maps in my app. Is there a way to put the place Id in a URL and have it directly link to the page? Or does it have to be done through

Answer 1

Recently, in May 2017, Google launched the new Google Maps URLs API. You can read about this API in the official documentation

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide

So, from now on you can construct a URL for Google Maps using the place ID. In your particular case this URL will be

https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Google&query_place_id=ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

The URL for a specific Google Place is returned by the places details API endpoint.

If for example you query:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=ChIJV2BQ4laeekgRFauLvdXbFXE&key=YOUR_API_KEY

You will see that in the returned JSON there is a key 'url' which points to https://maps.google.com/?cid=8148660811851344661

Answer 3

The correct format, at this time, to produce a general link that goes directly to correct google place is: https://maps.google.com/?cid=[place_id]&t=[maptype]

The map type parameter "t" is apparently necessary. Without it, google maps seems to perform a more general search when the link opens that is sometimes successful and sometimes not. With it, maps opens to correct place each time whether it opens in browser or in app on mobile.

Set this parameter to "m" for a street map and "k" for a satellite map.

A lot of answers on SO show the following syntax which often pulls unwanted results if two locations of the same name are nearby e.g.: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Starbucks/@43.088554,-88.06579,17z/

If you are already using google places api, then you have the place_id, so i recommend using it to avoid ambiguity.

Answer 4

Not directly, using the placeID you can get a variety of information in JSON or XML format, among them there are also the lat lng of the place and its address with which you can easily locate the map google developer doc