How to get latitude longitude from google map URL

Question

I am building an android application which would store latitude and longitude information from google maps. The application receives the Send/Share intent from Google maps when user chooses location from map and extracts co-ordinates by un-shortening the goo.gl map link (e.g. http://goo.gl/maps/FcglP) embedded in intent. This task is easy if the location being shared from google maps is unknown or named "dropped pin". In that case the un-shortened URL looks like

http://maps.google.com/?q=17.50122123,74.12351323&.....

If the location is well known (http://goo.gl/maps/FcglP), e.g. some road, un-shortened URL looks like

http://maps.google.com/?q=Sutarwadi+Baner+Gaon+Rd%2C+Baner&ftid=0x3bc2becfa70b8b3f:0xd210c15f634bcec3&hl=en&gl=us

I have been searching for last three hours about how to extract the co-ordinates from this kind of URL but couldn't find any information. Is there any other method to extract co-ordinates from a given goo.gl map URL? Some already developed library or google API?

I dont think so this is possible using Android Google Maps v2. try with Places API , ArcGIS Map or others — M D, Mar 08 '14 at 17:40
I tried Places API. No luck there. I don't think that ArcGIS would be helpful in the context. — enli, Mar 10 '14 at 12:25
this is not possible becoz here how could you get coordinates from this type of URL even? — M D, Mar 10 '14 at 12:31

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 09 '15 at 15:01

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2 steps:

Obtain a JSON with a long CID url by expanding the short URL: https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/v1/getting_started#expand
Retrieve information with the given URL: <longURL>&output=json
Then, in the final JSON, you've got a viewport section with a center lat&lon location

edited Jan 09 '15 at 15:01

Pavel Bucek

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answered Oct 15 '14 at 20:57

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this works, but it means downloading 10k of data. Anyone know a way to parse the `ftid=` part for the lat/long? It looks like it could be a lat/long. – Hans-Christoph Steiner Jan 09 '15 at 14:51
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51907305/get-latitude-longitude-from-url-google-maps/63842716#63842716 check this answer – AmmAr Yasser Sep 11 '20 at 08:30

gayatri darade · Answer 2 · 2018-12-20T11:59:10.423

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function myMap() {

var mapUrl = $('.map').html();
var url = mapUrl.split('@');
var at = url[1].split('z');
var zero = at[0].split(',');
var lat = zero[0];
var lon = zero[1];

var mapProp= {
        center:new google.maps.LatLng(lat,lon),
        zoom:5,
};
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mapL"),mapProp);

}

edited Dec 20 '18 at 11:59

answered Dec 20 '18 at 11:49

gayatri darade

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Edit your original post – Zun Dec 20 '18 at 11:51

How to get latitude longitude from google map URL

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