Comments on: Embeddable Google maps now live

By: estrategy

estrategy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:28:23 +0000

Google’s embeddable maps are a great and long-needed feature. It is, however, causing problems with TypePad blogs. Click my name to read how.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:44:31 +0000

Mr. Kill, I’ll call you Buzz. I thought the same thing too, but the enterprise and business uses they describe seem to deal with intranets or private websites not available to the public. They don’t want Google Maps being used by a company to plot the location of your delivery trucks, unless you’re paying them.

I do agree they need to have some Terms posted about embedding, as that is not specifically spelled out. It seems they added the feature, but didn’t adequately adjust the legal wording with the new capabilities.

By: Don Day

Don Day — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:00:05 +0000

I’m having issues too, Michael. One map at one address embedded just fine — the second map at a different location had the exact problem you describe…

By: Buzz kill

Buzz kill — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:55:33 +0000

For news sites, and even LR, wouldn’t the embed violate the Google Maps term and conditions?

I would’ve pasted a link, but the spam filter and I are having a disagreement right now:

“For business users, Google Maps is made available for your internal use only and may not be commercially redistributed, except that map data may be accessed and displayed by using the Google Maps API pursuant to the API terms and conditions.”

This doesn’t really seem like a developer API code kind of thing.

By: !

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:01:02 +0000

Note to advertiers: promote women-only products on the “Get directions to here” page… guys will never use this app; we never ask for directions.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:38:34 +0000

FINALLY!!!

Anybody who doesn’t replace their static maps with interactive maps like this just doesn’t get it. Users can click “Get directions to here” to get personalized directions.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:57:26 +0000

I wonder if they are still working through some bugs. I tried this earlier in the day and the maps I embedded didn’t have the arrow or bubble showing up in the embed, just the map itself.

The best way to map multiple points is to make a map in My Maps (click the tab on the left side of the Google Maps interface). There you can create a public map and put as many points as you want before you embed.

I’m thrilled this is now released. I’m guessing we’ll see a ton of sites adopt these now.