The experimental short GoogleMaps URLs stopped working since the beta launch of Google+. This was very upsetting, because we were sent back to the stone-age with super duper long URLs. For example this is the full link to GoogleMaps with a view on my old university in Eindhoven The Netherlands https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=Technische+Universiteit+Eindhoven%2C+Centrum%2C+Eindhoven%2C+Nederland&data=!1m4!1m3!1d5018!2d5.4893414!3d51.4487944!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d1563190!2d-74.724323!3d40.07304!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1.
It would get even longer if you have more search terms and filtering enabled.
Anyway, back to the main reason why you people are reading this.
Go to http://goo.gl/ and simply paste your GoogleMaps URL and voila!!
Our new link would be http://goo.gl/JmgYe
There you have it! Short links again 🙂
It requires a bit more work than the Labs experiment (clicking on the link button vs. going to http://goo.gl/ and enter the url). http://goo.gl/ works with every link you want to shorten and it saves all the short urls that you’ve made before if you have a Google Account!! Here’s the short(er) link to my blog http://goo.gl/UxBIh
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[…] July 2011 – Found a way to get short URLs again for GoogleMaps!! Click here […]
so this is like a horrible fix. go to another website…. copy and paste. how fun.
It’s not an ideal fix, but it’s the only way I know of to get shorter URLs at the moment. It’s the same approach when people use https://bitly.com/ to shorten their URLs. I’m surprised that Google hasn’t implemented some kind of option yet to shorten Google Map URLs…