Adding a map to your website or blog is now as easy as embedding a YouTube video. No programming skills are required, and there’s no need to sign up for a Maps API key. All it takes is three simple steps:
1. Go to Google Maps and pull up the map you want to embed. It can be a location, a business, a set of driving directions, search results, or a map you’ve created using our map-making tools.
2. Then click “Link to this page” in the top right-hand corner. Copy the text that you see in the second box.
3. Paste that text into your blog editor or into the HTML of your webpage. We use an <iframe> so it works on most blog hosting sites like Blogger.
Voila! The map appears on your blog.
I had worked out how to embed maps into this blog, but it took a bit of work, and actually getting it to work usually took a good bit of editing, and was normally pretty simple.
Playing with it, I found the maps pretty easy to embed now. And the examples that Google made to show how it can be done, actually seem pretty simple to put together. Again a case of a simple elegance that works.
Tags: Geography, Google, Interesting, Internet
