Google front-end launches

[Rasťo Šrámek]

Hi everyone,

we've completed plus code implementation on most Google front-ends. That means that they are surfaced for both places and dropped pins on maps on android, iOS, and MapsGO (lightweight maps), as well as desktop. The Google Places API and Geocoding API now support plus code search, plus code retrieval for places and geocodes, and lat/long to plus code conversion. Google Earth Pro supports plus code search in the latest version pushed out last week. In all above cases we prefer compound codes (e.g. PXX7+C9 Damaturu, Nigeria) to full codes, unless a suitable locality cannot be identified. Compound codes are preferred by us since they preserve the existing addressing structure and look like an address even if you haven't seen a plus code before.

Here are some screenshots!

Thanks for your support and patience!

Cheers,

Rasto

[David W Cox]

Helping people with there Google My Business page there are some situations where the code works correctly but the town name amended to the code that is displayed on a listing is different than what users expect. Here is an example of a Google My Business listing that shows "wrong town name" but correct location. It creates user confusion is there a good way to explain this to those that ask? Certainly, noway for the user to change it.

Thanks 

David Cox

[Rasťo Šrámek]

Hi David,

we are rolling out a change that will fix that discrepancy in most cases (i.e. we will trust the user's selected location).

Cheers,

Rasto

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