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

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David Mckee picture David Mckee · May 26, 2015 · Viewed 22.9k times · Source

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 the URL?

I can't seem to find anything detailing this in the docs. I've tried below, but it just gets me the standard google maps page:

https://maps.google.com/maps?placeid=ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4

Answer

xomena picture xomena · May 23, 2017

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!

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