Take the 2-minute tour ×  According to various references,
Google Maps has a query param called sll which does the
following:  Latitude,longitude of the point from which the
business search should be performed. You could use this to
perform an off-centre busness search. Google use it so "link to
this page" can record a map that has had the centre moved after
performing a business search. When requesting a route
map.getBounds().getSouthWest().toUrlValue() returns the same
value maps.google.com uses.  So, for instance, if (43.464258,
-80.52041) happens to be in Waterloo, Ontario, and (42.24370,
-82.98320) happens to be in Windsor, Ontario (many hundreds of
kilometers away), then my interpretation of the above
documentation would be that the following query:   will do a
search for "Mcdonalds" from Waterloo, to some McDonald's in
Windsor.  Unfortunately, that's not what happens (click for
yourself to see!). It ends up doing a search from the saddr
point, to the nearest McDonald's to that point. The value of sll
d