Google map embed feature coming soon
Steve Safran August 14th, 2007
Google Maps is coming out with a feature that will allow people to embed a map onto their blogs with just a snippet of code. You’ll be able to pull up whatever map you want in Google Maps, and then you’ll have the ability to get the “embed code” the same way you can embed a YouTube video. The map won’t be a static picture - it will still have the usual functions of a Google Map. Every site needs to realize this is what they should be doing: distributed information is what it’s all about. Make it easy for blogs and sites to embed your stuff and you will have instant syndication.
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1. dan | August 14th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Anyone have a favorite photo widget application?
We’d like to put our photos — especially viewer photos — into widgets … but I really don’t like using slide.com with their advertising.
And, I haven’t found a white-label photo widget that works for us yet.
As for google maps — I’m a big fan of fmatlas.com.
2. Amanda | August 15th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Dan,
If you are using Wordpress
Picasa + SimpleViewer + WP-Simpleviewer
3. Anon | August 15th, 2007 at 8:25 am
I will likely use this widget on some of my blogs. I already use blogger because of adsense and will likely be able to easily integrate google maps on my pages as well. The more you have on a page, the more it will keep readers coming back!
4. discreet_chaos | August 15th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I hope it’s more functional than their regular links. I haven’t tried it lately, but it used to be that though you’d zoom down to the desired level, whenever I’ve tried to link, it’d always start the view at the default position. This has meant that on the few occasions that I wanted to show an image from Google Maps, I’ve had to post a screenshot because then I’d know what it’d look like.
(Click my name for a pic, I sometimes use to illustrate a convoluted mess)
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