In my web page code, I used to have a link to open a new window with Google Maps initialized like this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:{{lat}},{{long}}&z=14
and it was showing a marker.
With the new google maps, this syntax does not work completely, as the zoom level is not taken into account. So I found out that this was working:
http://maps.google.com/maps/#{{lat}},{{long}},14z
But in this case I don't have a marker anymore.
Question: With the new syntax, how to get a marker at the specified position? Also, I could not find a Google web page documenting the syntax. Is there one?
Thank you
Try this is in the format you need. The first with marker the second without
https://www.google.com/maps/place//#46.090271,6.657248,16z
https://www.google.com/maps/#46.090271,6.657248,16z
you must add the place/ between maps/ and /#
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If I want to open a browser to Google Maps to center and show a single marker, I do it with a URL like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/place//#33.91729,-106.85761,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
But, I have 5-10 lat/long pairs that I want to show on that same map. How can I show multiple lat/long markers all specified only in a URL?
There is an up-to-date article (updated: May 18 2017) about easily linking to locations and directions using the New Google Maps.
You could use the directions service and form a url as such:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/33.93729,-106.85761/33.91629,-106.866761/33.98729,-106.85861
Use double slash "//" between markers to leave a position empty e.g. to set a custom start point.
Update
There is another excellent article here
Well, it is possible without directions. just add at the end: //# . example:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/33.93729,-106.85761/33.91629,-106.866761/33.98729,-106.85861//#34.0593359,-106.7131944,11z
I just wanted to add that Yandex.Maps does offer this feature without an api key. The syntax is pretty simple: https://yandex.ru/maps/?ll=[center longitude],[center latitude]&pt=[longitude1],[latitude1]~[longitude2],[latitude2]&z=[zoom level]&l=map
Eg:
https://yandex.ru/maps/?ll=30.310182,59.951059&pt=30.335429,59.944869~30.34127,59.89173&z=12&l=map
I am trying to embed an existing, public Google Map into a website. Specifically this one:
http://goo.gl/maps/cHf2
Of course I could use the iframe embed to achieve this, but I would like a little more control over the map … I imagined being able to pull all the markers from the map and display them as an index next to the map. Kind of like Google already does, but embedded in my page with my own styles and images.
I have been digging through Google, Stack Overflow and the API instructions and couldn’t find any relevant posts. In the GET string of the map on Google we can see this chunk:
&msid=212828439842926497866.0004bfae4da003d8ffd1f&mid=1341413217
I thought in there might be a maps ID and I could use it to query the content of the map through the API? The intention is using Google Maps as a CMS for less technical minded people and not dealing with geo data in our own CMS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I am just missing the forest for the trees.
You can download the kml that specifies the markers in that page and display that on your API based map. This example defaults to displaying it using geoxml3, but you can hide that and display the KmlLayer version.
You should be able to just point KmlLayer to the link (I downloaded the kml and put it on my server so it would work with geoxml3).
Here is an example (taken directly from the documentation) that does that
here is the original
I've been wondering about this for some time:
Is it possible to let a custom marker for a place on a google map display an infowindow with the same information that the infowindows on maps.google.com display when clicking on a place, without having to generate the HTML for the content yourself (using the places library)? I hope you know what I mean. Please let me know if I'm being unclear.
It would be great if one could pull the information straight from google instead of having to do it manually. I mean, why do something that's already there, right? ;)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
edit: I've tried rephrasing my question to make it clearer. I've removed the example code because it was just adding to the confusion. Sorry, English isn't my first language ...
There is currently no API call from Google that will provide the default InfoWindow content for a Lat/Long location.
The only thing google currently provides is some Reverse Geocoding Infomation.
I want to link to google maps at a particular location with a marker on a particular point.
It's easy to link to a location:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=XX.XXXX,XX.XXXX
But how do I drop a marker at that point too? preferably with a bit of my own text but that's just a bonus.
2017 - Google has released documentation on this see new accepted answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44477650/359135
In May 2017 Google launched the official Google Maps URLs documentation. The Google Maps URLs introduces universal cross-platform syntax that you can use in your applications.
Have a look at the following document:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide
You can use URLs in search, directions, map and street view modes.
For example, to show the marker at specified position you can use the following URL:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=36.26577,-92.54324
For further details please read aforementioned documentation.
You can also file feature requests for this API in Google issue tracker.
This format works, but it doesn't seem to be an official way of doing so
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:36.26577,-92.54324
Also you may want to take a look at this. They have a few answers and seem to indicate that this is the new method:
http://maps.google.com/maps?&z=10&q=36.26577+-92.54324&ll=36.26577+-92.54324
If you want to include a zoom level, you can use this format:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.7028722+-73.9868281/#40.7028722,-73.9868281,15z
will redirect to this link (per 2017.09.21)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B042'10.3%22N+73%C2%B059'12.6%22W/#40.7028722,-73.9868281,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.7028722!4d-73.9868281
This URL format worked like a charm:
http://maps.google.com/maps?&z={INSERT_MAP_ZOOM}&mrt={INSERT_TYPE_OF_SEARCH}&t={INSERT_MAP_TYPE}&q={INSERT_MAP_LAT_COORDINATES}+{INSERT_MAP_LONG_COORDINATES}
Example for Mount Everest:
http://maps.google.com/maps?&z=15&mrt=yp&t=k&q=27.9879012+86.9253141
Full reference here:
https://moz.com/ugc/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-google-maps-parameters
-- EDIT --
Apparently the zoom parameter stopped working, here's the updated format.
Format
https://www.google.com/maps/#?api=1&map_action=map&basemap=satellite¢er={LAT},{LONG}&zoom={ZOOM}
Example
https://www.google.com/maps/#?api=1&map_action=map&basemap=satellite¢er=27.9879012,86.9253141&zoom=14
If working with Basic4Android and looking for an easy fix to the problem, try this it works both Google maps and Openstreet even though OSM creates a bit of a messy result and thanx to [yndolok] for the google marker
GooglemLoc="https://www.google.com/maps/place/"&[Latitude]&"+"&[Longitude]&"/#"&[Latitude]&","&[Longitude]&",15z"
GooglemRute="https://www.google.co.ls/maps/dir/"&[FrmLatt]&","&[FrmLong]&"/"&[ToLatt]&","&[FrmLong]&"/#"&[ScreenX]&","&[ScreenY]&",14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0?hl=en" 'route ?hl=en
OpenStreetLoc="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/"&[Latitude]&"/"&[Longitude]&"&layers=N"
OpenStreetRute="https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route="&[FrmLatt]&"%2C"&[FrmLong]&"%3B"&[ToLatt]&"%2C"&[ToLong]&"#Map=15/"&[ScreenX]&"/"&[Screeny]&"&layers=N"
2023 update:
I found a very easy way to implement this function.
From google maps, find your POI (point of interest) and click on it.
on left handside opening menu you will see an icon Share and click.
A modal opens and you see a sharing link input box. Next to it you will see Copy link. Go to your url and paste it like;
Drive to our office
Voila, you are done.
I know I can do it with the Google Maps API, but do you know if there is a way to change the marker in an embedded Google Map?
I want to replace the default "A" button for a "B" button or the marker with just a dot in the middle.
I haven't played around with embedding Google Maps before (I generally go straight to the API for stuff like this). I tried a couple of approaches:
I figured maybe the embed syntax would be the same as the static maps api. So I grabbed a static maps URL, copied the markers param from that and tried sticking it into the iFrame URL. This didn't work so much.
I created a Google MyPlaces and customized the marker to use the one your provided. This created a Test map which had the appropriate marker icon. I then grabbed the embed code and stuck it on a test page and voila!
Actually I had the same problem but didn't use any of the methods above and thought I share:
If you only want a marker as I did but don't want to use API then simply fool google into thinking you want a route planned using the GET tags "saddr" and "daddr"
"saddr" defines your start location (post code , street name+ number, whatever)
ONLY define saddr and leave out daddr and google maps will by default still show the marker for "A" (your start location) exactly where you want it , all in iframe without API.