Question

I’m having problem publishing actions (using OpenGraph) with tagged Google Places instead of Facebook Place. It should be straight forward according to the following document:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/location_tagging/#third_party

But every time I try to publish an action with place=http://GOOGLE_PLACE_URL I get the following error message:

The action you’re trying to publish is invalid because the specified place ‘http://GOOGLE_PLACE_URL’ is invalid.

I’ve tried to put Google Maps, Google Places and Google+ Local URLs but all with the same problem.

Note: I could successfully publish actions when I set “place=Facebook_Place_ID”.

Any help or hint is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Answer 1

I don’t think Google’s place pages have the markup necessary to support Open Graph

From the documentation:

Publishing actions with 3rd party places is similar to the location
tagging example above, except that you will pass in the url to another
site’s place object.

The foursquare example in the documentation is defined as a place, as well as having the metadata foursquare uses:
https://foursquare.com/v/eataly/4c5ef77bfff99c74eda954d3

See Facebook’s Debug Tool for that URL at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffoursquare.com%2Fv%2Feataly%2F4c5ef77bfff99c74eda954d3 – it clearly shows that foursquare’s place is defined as ‎og:type‎ playfoursquare:venue and has location data available for Facebook – i suspect Google does not have this on their place pages