paulg
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Sometime in the last few days the Google Places Details API started to return Google Maps URL of the form for a place:
https://maps.google.com/?cid={cid}<cid><cid>
Where in the past it returned a Google Plus page URL of the form:
https://plus.google.com/{google+ id or name}<google+id or="" name=""><google+ page="" id="" or="" name="">/about?hl=en-US
The URL documentation is here but does not mention the change:
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details
The example for the url field has been changed but it uses a different form:
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid={cid}<cid>
The documentation for url states:
url contains the URL of the official Google page for this place. This will be the Google-owned page that contains the best available information about the place. Applications must link to or embed this page on any screen that shows detailed results about the place to the user.
I have tried the api for about 10 businesses and they are all using the maps url.
Does anyone have any background on this change? The Google+ pages that where being returned are still there but interested in the future of these pages considering google is making it so hard to get to them.
Cheers.</cid></google+></google+id></cid></cid>
https://maps.google.com/?cid={cid}<cid><cid>
Where in the past it returned a Google Plus page URL of the form:
https://plus.google.com/{google+ id or name}<google+id or="" name=""><google+ page="" id="" or="" name="">/about?hl=en-US
The URL documentation is here but does not mention the change:
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details
The example for the url field has been changed but it uses a different form:
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid={cid}<cid>
The documentation for url states:
url contains the URL of the official Google page for this place. This will be the Google-owned page that contains the best available information about the place. Applications must link to or embed this page on any screen that shows detailed results about the place to the user.
I have tried the api for about 10 businesses and they are all using the maps url.
Does anyone have any background on this change? The Google+ pages that where being returned are still there but interested in the future of these pages considering google is making it so hard to get to them.
Cheers.</cid></google+></google+id></cid></cid>