Embed google map using share url

Question

Say, you go to google maps and search for 'Walmart', then choose the first Walmart in the list, and you get a URL like:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walmart+Supercenter/@41.7991677,-70.5882922,10z/data=!4m5!1m2!2m1!1swalmart!3m1!1s0x89e4c6127cc5b685:0x104d337439f46ea9

then if you go to that URL, it gives you a valid map with the pinpoint. This (above) is the URL that would be stored in my database, thus the URL I want to use to embed a map.

Of course, I can't use that URL to embed in an iframe, and I instead have to use:

https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d380717.11119594605!2d-70.5882922!3d41.7991677!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89e4c6127cc5b685%3A0x104d337439f46ea9!2sWalmart+Supercenter!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1445294674664

So... for any shareable Google Maps url, how can I convert it to an embeddable url to be used as the iframe

src

?

I can do it server-side using PHP or client-side with javascript. use of regex would be acceptable.

Answer 1

This could do the trick :

$matches = [];

preg_match("/@(.*?),(.*?),/",$str,$matches);

$place = $matches[1];

preg_match("/@(.*?),(.*?),/",$str,$matches);

$lat = $matches[1];
$long = $matches[2];

echo '<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place?q='.$place.'&center='.$lat.','.$long.'&key=AIzaSyAN0om9mFmy1QN6Wf54tXAowK4eT0ZUPrU&zoom=8" frameborder="0"></iframe>';

After the first @ char it is located the latitude and logitude, which you can extract using the regex I wrote, and than capture the output on 2 groups and add it that on the embedd URL.

Embed google map using share url

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