Bring back the google maps button and make map image clickable when searching on google

google_search_maps_addon.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Google Search Maps Fix
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      2024-03-07
// @description  Bring Google maps button back
// @author       Daan Grashoff / Delivator
// @match        https://www.google.com/search*
// @include      https://www.google.tld/search*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/images/branding/googleg/1x/googleg_standard_color_128dp.png
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
    'use strict';

    function addMapsLink() {
        // Find the existing results tabs (Images, News, etc.)
        const tabsContainer = document.querySelector('.IUOThf');
        const mapImage = document.querySelector('#lu_map');

        // Get the search query from the URL
        const searchQuery = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get('q');

        // Construct the Maps link with the query
        const mapsLink = `${window.location.origin}/maps?q=${searchQuery}`;

        // If map image exists
        if (mapImage) {
            const anchorElement = document.createElement('a');
            anchorElement.href = mapsLink;
            mapImage.parentNode.insertBefore(anchorElement, mapImage);
            anchorElement.appendChild(mapImage);
        }

        // If tabs exist, proceed
        if (tabsContainer) {
            // Create the Maps button
            const mapsButton = document.createElement('a');
            mapsButton.classList.add('nPDzT', 'T3FoJb');  // Style to match other tabs

            // Create the inner elements for the Maps button
            const mapDiv = document.createElement('div');
            mapDiv.jsname = 'bVqjv';
            mapDiv.classList.add('GKS7s');

            const mapSpan = document.createElement('span');
            mapSpan.classList.add('FMKtTb', 'UqcIvb');
            mapSpan.jsname = 'pIvPIe';
            mapSpan.textContent = 'Maps';

            // Assemble the elements
            mapDiv.appendChild(mapSpan);
            mapsButton.appendChild(mapDiv);
            mapsButton.href = mapsLink;

            // Insert the Maps button at the beginning of the tabs container
            tabsContainer.prepend(mapsButton);
        }

    }

    // Call the function to add the button
    addMapsLink();

})();

Thank you so much for this script! It is working for addresses (both the tab and the map image) but for some reason, it does not work for cities. For example when I search for "Copenhagen", the tab does not appear

Awesome script, thanks!

There's only one tiny problem: Sometimes, Google doesn't show buttons/tabs but links (directly below the search input field, and above where the tabs are).
I cloned the tabsContainer to add a maps link in addition to the maps button/tab:

(function () {

    'use strict';

    function addMapsLink() {
        // Find the existing results tabs (Images, News, etc.)
        const linksContainer = document.querySelector('.crJ18e');
        const tabsContainer = document.querySelector('.IUOThf');
        const mapImage = document.querySelector('#lu_map');


        // Get the search query from the URL
        const searchQuery = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get('q');

        // Construct the Maps link with the query
        const mapsLink = `${window.location.origin}/maps?q=${searchQuery}`;

        // If map image exists
        if (mapImage) {
            const anchorElement = document.createElement('a');
            anchorElement.href = mapsLink;
            mapImage.parentNode.insertBefore(anchorElement, mapImage);
            anchorElement.appendChild(mapImage);
        }

        // If links exist, proceed
        if (linksContainer) {
            // Create the Maps button
            const mapsButtonL = document.createElement('a');
            mapsButtonL.classList.add('nPDzT', 'T3FoJb');  // Style to match other tabs

            // Create the inner elements for the Maps button
            const mapDivL = document.createElement('div');
            mapDivL.jsname = 'bVqjv';
            mapDivL.classList.add('YmvwI');    //GKS7s

            const mapSpanL = document.createElement('span');
            mapSpanL.classList.add('FMKtTb', 'UqcIvb');
            mapSpanL.jsname = 'pIvPIe';
            mapSpanL.textContent = 'Maps';

            // Assemble the elements
            mapDivL.appendChild(mapSpanL);
            mapsButtonL.appendChild(mapDivL);
            mapsButtonL.href = mapsLink;

            // Insert the Maps button at the beginning of the tabs container
            linksContainer.prepend(mapsButtonL);
        }

        // If tabs exist, proceed
        if (tabsContainer) {
            // Create the Maps button
            const mapsButtonT = document.createElement('a');
            mapsButtonT.classList.add('nPDzT', 'T3FoJb');  // Style to match other tabs

            // Create the inner elements for the Maps button
            const mapDivT = document.createElement('div');
            mapDivT.jsname = 'bVqjv';
            mapDivT.classList.add('GKS7s');

            const mapSpanT = document.createElement('span');
            mapSpanT.classList.add('FMKtTb', 'UqcIvb');
            mapSpanT.jsname = 'pIvPIe';
            mapSpanT.textContent = 'Maps';

            // Assemble the elements
            mapDivT.appendChild(mapSpanT);
            mapsButtonT.appendChild(mapDivT);
            mapsButtonT.href = mapsLink;

            // Insert the Maps button at the beginning of the tabs container
            tabsContainer.prepend(mapsButtonT);
        }

    }

    // Call the function to add the button
    addMapsLink();

})();

I also added ".replace("-site:pinterest.*", '')" to "searchQuery" because the maps search is too stupid to ignore "-site" in the search query. Removal of "-site" could probably be automated to remove any "-site", but that might be too much work for something most people probably don't need.

@danielmmmm solution for the links vs tabs worked well for me, but the map image was still not clickable. The fix is easy, change const mapImage = document.querySelector('#lu_map'); to const mapImage = document.querySelector('.Lx2b0d');

Thank you so much for this script! It is working for addresses (both the tab and the map image) but for some reason, it does not work for cities. For example when I search for "Copenhagen", the tab does not appear

Hmm can't reproduce it on my side. Can you send me a link?

AFAIK the problem is that google uses these randomly generated IDs and class names that can be different for users in different regions and sometimes they just update their UI and it becomes outdated again.

Have any of you tried out if the original (https://gist.github.com/Daan-Grashoff/57c40bc355bcb4d1ebc1290094f57ddf) has fixed any of these issues?

The inconsistency is so frustrating. Sometimes google uses static maps, sometimes dynamic maps and sometimes no maps. And sometimes the tab looks completely different and I would need an exception for every single case.

Yeah, Google are not making it easy. I ended up with

        // Find the existing results tabs (Images, News, etc.)
        const linksContainer = document.querySelector('.crJ18e');
        const tabsContainer = document.querySelector('.IUOThf');
        
        // The map sometimes is a thumbnail on the right and sometimes a larger image on top of the results
        var mapImage = document.querySelector('.Lx2b0d');
        if (mapImage == null) {
            mapImage = document.querySelector('.dirs');
        }

Which seems to handle all cases I have encountered so far.

Thank you so much for this script! It is working for addresses (both the tab and the map image) but for some reason, it does not work for cities. For example when I search for "Copenhagen", the tab does not appear

Hmm can't reproduce it on my side. Can you send me a link?

It's fine, I found a workaround for that. Basically when I was running one-word plain searches like "Denmark" or "Copenhagen", there wasn't any map button appearing. I have made it a habit now to end all of my searches regarding places with the word map, so I am typing "USA map" instead of just "USA" and it works like a charm, I have both the button "Maps" on top and the clickable map! Thanks once again for the great script!