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August 21, 2007

Google Adds Embedding To Google Maps

Duncan Riley

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Google announced the addition of YouTube style embedding to Google Maps this morning.

Google Map mashups have been popular for a long time now, however for the non-programming inclined including a Google Map on a blog or website hasn’t always been easy. The new embed feature (as above) now provides an easy way for anyone to include an active map on their site.

Embedded maps can be customized in terms of size and can also include driving directions, search results, or a user generated map.

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  1. Allen Stern

    August 21st, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    Is that where you live Duncan?

  2. Deals and Coupons

    August 21st, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Nice! Will definitely try it out.

  3. ChandraB

    August 21st, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Wow…I was at DreamWorld exactly one year ago. fanastic place. If you go, remember to get your picture taken with the Tigers there, it’s awesome!

  4. Duncan Riley

    August 21st, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    Allen
    no, I don’t live in a Theme Park (or QLD for that matter), although I’ve heard some people refer to Silicon Valley as Dreamworld before, so I thought the map reference sort of worked :-)

  5. David Mackey

    August 21st, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    This is great. My question is, can I get directions using the map or setup default directions?

  6. man from Nantucket

    August 21st, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    thanks for the heads up on this… it’s still a bit unclear to me whether the map data has to be hosted at google or whether it can be KML and thus driven dynamically as in the enclosed example. If it’s the latter, they’re going to put several smaller guys out of business such as http://www.afcomponents.com, who claim to be ‘working with’ google on their technology…

    Sonic Youth

    Get this map

  7. Rajesh Shakya

    August 21st, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    Wow, this is something of value to blogs and sites.

    Rajesh Shakya
    http://www.rajeshshakya.com
    Helping technopreneurs to excel and lead their life!

  8. man from Nantucket

    August 21st, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    After a bit more inspection I’m thinking this is a bit of a non-event - they use iFrames to embed the linked content which must already reside on google hosting.

    So, you can’t embed these things on myspace or facebook pages, and you cant embed maps with dynamic content… anyone have a different read on it?

  9. John Peterson

    August 21st, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    I am still waiting for a high resolution African maps in Google. It is not fare to always ignore Africa.

    I hope that google will correct this and I will be able to post my Safari trip to Africa on line.

  10. techguy

    August 21st, 2007 at 11:28 pm

    The dynamic content is what I was hoping for. Is that going to be in the next release of the google maps api?

    Did you want to chart your African safari or take an African safari?

  11. YouON

    August 21st, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    on wordpress i’ve got this

    Forbidden
    Your client does not have permission to get URL /maps/ms?t=k&om=1&s=AARTsJqzMAxQ7giGUN7wWy5MCeO_td_MeQ&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=43.809322,7.760788&spn=0.021679,0.036478&z=14&output=embed from this server. (Client IP address: 80.117.110.230)

    any advice?

    thanks all, alessio

  12. John So

    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 am

    This is a feature that might be useful in our site. But then for the Australia site this cannot zoom down to the lowest level, that might be a drawback for us. BTW I lived very close to the Surfer’s Paradise a few years back, the theme parks there are no where close to any one in CA.

    John

    http://www.whereismycoffee.com

  13. Vero

    August 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 am

    I can imagine this will be excellent for chronicles of travel, conference/event planning.

    Let’s just hope it doesn’t result in too many naive site owners giving their personal home address, promptly getting all their stuff nicked the following night! ;)

  14. Ken Zhao

    August 22nd, 2007 at 6:12 am

    Excellent, i will consider applying it to my websites.

  15. Fabian Mohr

    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    YouON: Same problem here, I can’t even preview the embedded Map in Wordpress. Same error message.

  16. Jaan Kanellis

    August 25th, 2007 at 10:49 am

    I am getting a common message that I haven’t found the answer to.
    This is what shows up on my website when i try to load my new map:

    Google Error

    Forbidden

    Your client does not have permission to get URL /maps/ms?
    om=1&s=AARTsJo8C0mHhqoXU3_kgoFFHHR8pD4w1A&
    ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=41.72623,-84.034424&spn=2.049844,3.295898&
    z=8&output=embed
    from this server. (Client IP address: 72.241.1.174)

    Here is the URL:

    http://www.hawaiianpoolbuilder.....ctory.html

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Jaan

  17. Steve

    August 26th, 2007 at 2:34 am

    How do i embed a map into wordpress, just like your map on this page?

    Cheers Steve

  18. Yuki

    August 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    Hi.

    I have created a tool that generates an embed tag for google map, and want people to try it.

    You can create a tag just by clicking on the map. Please give it a try. You can start from this URL (show you how to use):

    http://ongmap.com/blog/?p=117

    or just go directly to the site (http://ongmap.com)

  19. Bailey

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    I’ve trying to embedd a google map into a facebook application but haven’t had any luck. I’ve discovered that you cannot use the map using the traditional onload attribute in the body tag.

    Have any of you had any luck?

    Thanks,
    Bailey

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