what is @ letter in google maps URL

Question

what is @ letter in google maps URL is it a property in the url like Get method ?

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Answer 1

It's just a character with no reserved meaning (it's valid to use in the path , even without percent-encoding).

Instead of

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.1158476,-96.2044115,6z

they could have also used one of these:

https://www.google.com/maps/at-38.1158476,-96.2044115,6z
https://www.google.com/maps/38.1158476,-96.2044115,6z
https://www.google.com/maps/loc/38.1158476,-96.2044115,6z
…

They probably chose the @ because it can be read as "at", which makes sense because coordinates follow (" at <location> ").