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URL: place

URL

https://www.google.com/maps/place/

Parameters

  • Place Name: Name of the Place (Whitespaces denoted by +)
  • Country Name: Name of Country (Whitespaces denoted by +)
  • Latitude: Latitude of the point at center of screen (Accurate to 7 decimal places)
  • Longitude: Longitude of the point at center of screen (Accurate to 7 decimal places)
  • Zoom Level: Zoom Level of the map
  • PBData: Protobuffer Data

Construction of the URL

  • First Level: Place Name and Country Name connected by ++

    eg: The+White+House++United+States

  • Second Level: Latitude, Longitude and Zoom Level sperated by commas (,), starting with the unicode character U+0040 (@) and ending with the letter z.

    eg: @38.8864874,-77.0377681,15z

  • Third Level: PBData with the prefix data=

    eg: data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b7b7bcdecbb1df:0x715969d86d0b76bf!8m2!3d38.8976763!4d-77.0365298!16zL20vMDgxc3E

Constructed URL

https://www.google.com/maps/place/[Place Name++Country Name]/@[Latitude],[Longitude],[ZoomLevel]z/data=[PBData]

Sample URL

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+White+House++United+States/@38.8864874,-77.0377681,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b7b7bcdecbb1df:0x715969d86d0b76bf!8m2!3d38.8976763!4d-77.0365298!16zL20vMDgxc3E

Protcol Buffer Data Breakdown

  1. 4m6 - message (6 blocks)
    1. 3m5 - message (5 blocks)
      1. 1s - string: Hexadecimal string of Place ID (Hex String 1:Hex String 2)
      2. 8m2 - message (2 blocks)
        1. 3d - double: Latitude
        2. 4d - double: Longitiude
      3. 2 possible cases:
        • If an MID is assigned to the place: 16z - base64 (no padding): MID of the location
        • If not: 16s - string: unique identifer of the location created by google maps [UNCERTAIN]