Google Maps Platform: november 2016

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Product updates, customer stories, and tips and tricks on Google Maps Platform

Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs

dinsdag 22 november 2016

Geocoding APIPlace Autocomplete service in Places APIPlace Search service in Places API
Geocoding APIGeocoding API

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Geocoding API is best used for unambiguous complete addresses, such as "48 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia"

Places APIPlaces APItype

Place Autocomplete servicePlace Autocomplete service in the Places API

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Typing "123 Main St" into a Place Autocomplete search box lets the user choose from multiple results. Results can also be biased to prefer those near the area shown on the map or near the current user location

Place Search servicePlace Search service in Places API
Future Changes to Geocoding APIZERO_RESULTSnew_forward_geocoder=truehttps://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?new_forward_geocoder=true&address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&key=YOUR_API_KEYnewForwardGeocoder: trueGeocoderRequestissue tracker
In Summary

	Geocoding API	Place Search	Place Autocomplete
Scope	Addresses only	Semantic locations and addresses, including businesses and points of interest
Strengths	Unambiguous complete addresses	Ambiguous or incomplete addresses in automated systems	Responding to real-time user input

new_forward_geocoder=trueGoogle Maps Geocoding APIPlace Autocomplete in the Places APIPlace Search in the Places APIbest practices guideissue tracker

Posted by Elena Kelareva, Product Manager, Google Maps APIs

Smart scrolling comes to mobile web maps

dinsdag 15 november 2016

guide to building mobile-friendly websitesmobile-friendly testing toolAccelerated Mobile PagesProgressive Web Apps

The map trapgestureHandling

"cooperative": Two-finger touch gestures pan and zoom the map, as do all mouse gestures. One-finger touch gestures are ignored by the map. In this mode, the map cooperates with the page, so that one-finger touch gestures can pan the page.

"greedy": All touch gestures pan or zoom the map. This was the previous behaviour.

"none": The map cannot be panned or zoomed by user gestures.

"auto": Gesture handling is automatically set to either cooperative or greedy, depending on whether the page is scrollable or not (defined by a comparison of the page body dimensions and the window dimensions).

If the page is scrollable, “auto” sets the gesture handling mode to cooperative.

If the page is not scrollable, “auto” sets the gesture handling to greedy.

If the map is in an iFrame, “auto” sets the gesture handling to cooperative because the API can’t determine whether the page is scrollable.

Note that there is currently no way to change the gesture handling mode for Street View; these options only affect the way gestures are handled by the map. If you’d like to see this extended to Street View in future, please let us know on our public issue tracker.MapOptionsmap = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-div'), {

gestureHandling: 'cooperative',

center: {lat: -34.397, lng: 150.644},

zoom: 8

});gestureHandlingautogestureHandlinggreedy

Maps viewed within a scrollable website on a mobile device will display this overlay on touch

option draggable: falsegestureHandling: 'none'draggabledraggablefalseMaximizing the map when you need itfullscreenControltruefalseMapOptionsfullscreenControltruefalse