nic
03/15/17 11:43 PM
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Hi everyone,
I've made a small change to the URL generated when you select "Show location URL" or "View at google.com" when on a Map's View page.
For the longest time, we've been using "old style" URLs, that look like this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=41.8528564,-87.71014930000001&z=20
As you've all seen, Google updated their URL format a while back. They currently use something like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8528564,-87.71014930000001,20z,270h/data=!3m1!1e3
We're now generating URLs in the "new" format. The benefit that this gives us is that we can now include the heading (270h above) in the generated URL.
I've tested this on a few maps and it looks good, but please let me know if you find any issues.
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Alephs
03/17/17 06:43 AM
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Great change!
However, my first map with this setting isn't working: its zoom level is too low and it is not of the right orientation, yet the URL is in the right format. What might have gone wrong?
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nic
03/18/17 10:33 AM
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Thanks Alephs, I've had a couple reports that it's not always working. Can you share which Map you're talking about?
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Alephs
03/18/17 12:30 PM
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Hey, nic, mlc1us corrected the map in question. For now we'll have to use a workaround. I'm sure this is just a short-term glitch of some sort. I really put a little bit of effort into making sure that the map had the proper orientation, since it didn't work always in the old system as well, I believe, only to find out that for some reason it didn't work. I don't know why it went wrong.
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mlc1us
03/18/17 12:55 PM
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Here's one
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/dr-90210-robert-reys-house/
The URL was created by the viewer.
Here is the URL that works: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1194999,-118.43055042&z=20&t=k&hl=en-US&gl=MX°=180
mlc1us
Virtual Globetrotting Moderator
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nic
03/28/17 04:18 PM
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Thanks! That was the perfect example. It looks like Google updated their URL structure again.
Before, for the "new style" URLs, the zoom was in meters (1800y):
http://maps.google.com/maps/@34.1194999,-118.43055042000003,1800y,180h/data=!3m1!1e3
Now, it contains the zoom level directly (20z):
http://maps.google.com/maps/@34.1194999,-118.43055042000003,20z,180h/data=!3m1!1e3
The above map looks better now -- let me know if you find any other bad examples.
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Alephs
04/03/17 06:01 PM
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Does the new Google Maps URL format work now?
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Alephs
04/07/17 12:20 PM
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O.K., the new format works. However, the old one is still the one generated in the Submitter, so when you post a map with a particular orientation through it and then click on the thumbnail to see if it matches what you wanted, it doesn't work.
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nic
04/23/17 12:39 PM
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@Alephs thanks for reporting this. I'll work on this shortly.
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