Google Maps Creation using Wizards

Google Maps can be created and embedded into your blog / website very easily! There are two very easy ways of creating maps, with little or no knowledge of Google Maps.

Way-1

You can check out the following link You can create the map by filling the following details. You can even embedded a search control for easier navigation.

Give details like Area in Pixels, You can Zoom level to City level or Street Level and fill the name of the area where you want your map to be centered.

Map width: pixels Map height: pixels Map zoom: city level street level block level Center location name: Center location link URL: Center location address:

Way-2

You can visit maps.google.com ! Search for your favourite place and you can find links like Link and Send! When you click on Link, you will find the above menu (in the image) with following details

Paste link in email or IM - Copy the link and paste it in your status message or email link !

Paste HTML to embed in website - If you own a website or blog, you can copy this code and paste wherever you want !!

You can even take Printout and compose the mail then and there itself by clicking on Send.

Cross post from http://ganex-t.blogspot.com

Introduction to Google Maps - Part 1

I will give a birds eye view of Google Maps

Google Maps is one of the most popular APIs released by Google. Technically it is called as Geo Spatial Viewing Tool. You can use the API and embed these maps into your website / blog etc., With the huge success of this API, other players like Microsoft, Amazon followed. It even made AJAX popular !!

Google Maps is the first public API, I have worked with. The API is every easy learn - APIs are meant to be that way ;). FYI Google Maps is free to use.

What is Google Maps?
Google Maps provides a highly responsive, intuitive mapping interface with embedded, detailed street and aerial imagery data. In addition, map controls can be embedded in the product to give users full control over map navigation and the display of street and imagery data.

How to use Google Maps ?

We need to register with google here you will get a API Key, which you need to use in every Map you make.

A Typical Map looks like this. We have a Marker, Info Window, Zoom / unZoom & Direction control on the map.

There are lots of possiblities with this API. Many use this API as a part of his/her Mashup.

Next part : We will look on how to create a map and add Markers to it, with map.

- Ganesh

Shareathon - 1

Event : Google IO, 2009

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