GOOGLE DRIVE URL PARAMETERS UPDATE
GOOGLE DRIVE URL PARAMETERS CODE

Can be set to t for traffic or c for street view, or tc for both at the same time.Ĭontrols the view type. Can be set to:ĭon’t ask me why those letters were used, I don’t know why either. Similar to ll, only this sets the lat/long of the centre point for a business search. Interestingly, you can use this without q, in which case it doesn’t show a marker. Latitude and longitude of the map centre point.

realestate – gives real estate based results.

websearch – searches webpages that Google has given a geographical position.

Requires a location set either in q, loc or near. Also requires q to be set, and works better with loc as well. Specifies the type of search (left blank by default, which searches everything). Used for local searches, near as I can tell. Basically, it limits the number of degrees long/lat that will be shown. Sets the span width and height that the geocoder will compute. More information on the super-high zoom level images can be found here. Can be set 19 normally, but in certain cases can go up to 23. Mostly only useful if q is a business or suchlike. Also has the added effect of allowing you to increase the AddressDetails Accuracy value by being more precise. Used to specify the location instead of putting it into q. Again (if you have no girlfriend), things get interesting. You can enter an address, a town, city or village, postcodes, variables of latitude and longitude (in either decimal form or as degrees, minutes and seconds) and landmarks.Įverything from here on in is preceded by an & sign, as it's tagged on to the end. Can be set to q (the standard layout), d (for directions) or l (for local). This sets what kind of display the user is presented with. If you didn't know that bit, you're shouldn’t be reading this. Just as a quick aside, if you want to view this yourself, you can do so with one of the URL strings below, but you'll need to sign up for a Google Maps API key.

GOOGLE DRIVE URL PARAMETERS CODE

It's presented the response code from the server (200 - found and valid), the address, how likely it is that this is the place I've queried (AddressDetails Accuracy), the country name code, and most importantly, the longitude and latitude values.

You can see this below.Īs you can see, I've done a search for London. To understand what we're going to be seeing, it's helpful to understand what's going on under the hood, so I've copied an example of the XML Google uses to geocode their maps. So appreciate it!Ī big thank you to everyone who helped compile this, and to Teifion, who smells, and Huw, who doesn't. As a result, this research was conducted by individually tweaking every option I could find on the Google Maps interface.

GOOGLE DRIVE URL PARAMETERS UPDATE

On its own, this created an interesting problem, since Google doesn’t actually update the URLs when you go to new pages. That post focused on the URL parameters you can feed into Google to generate SERPs.This time, however, I’m looking at Google Maps. This guide came around as the result of a post I previously wrote for YOUmoz, which in itself came around as a result of a night of drinking and being sent an interesting Google SERP.

Google drive url parameters