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Google Maps URLs
CID, Place ID, and Feature ID
What's the difference between a CID (Customer ID), Place ID, and Feature ID?
Example URLs:
Feature ID —
https://www.google.com/maps/place/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s
0x880e2cbee269fbbb
:
0xcf09307f0945d4fd
!8m2!3d40!4d90
https://www.google.com/maps/place/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s
0x0
:
0xcf09307f0945d4fd
!8m2!3d40!4d90
Place ID —
https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=
Skydeck+Chicago
&query_place_id=
CChIJu_tp4r4sDogR_dRFCX8wCc8
The
query "fallback"
seems to be fairly required?
Not cross-platform, doesn't work with Android —
https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:
ChIJgUbEo8cfqokR5lP9_Wh_DaM
CID —
https://maps.google.com/?cid=
14918508562816029949
(converted from hex to decimal)
Ways to convert from one to another:
Find the Place ID of any place
.
My preferred way to get a cross-platform URL is to:
On the main Google page, make a search that's able to uniquely find my desired Maps entry, and that shows it in the side infobox.
Copy-and-paste that Maps URL
into my
URL extractor
tool.
The general way to convert these is to obtain your own API key, and
make the relevant API call
.
But what if you don't have an active API key?
This front-end is free to try
.
First-party documentation:
Important URLs
Map ID (AKA Feature ID)
Place ID