Google has just released a new mapping feature that I’ve been waiting for for ages, and is going to work really well on this blog. You can now embed their maps in the same way as you can add youtube videos to blogs, with a simple snippet of code. Here is my map of some great bars in the La Latina area of Madrid. Click on the blue flags for more details, use the controls to zoom in, out etc, click and hold to drag the map around… great stuff:
16 Responses to “La Latina bars, Madrid, and Google Maps”
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ValenciaSon
22 Aug 07 at 11:47 am
I love the functionality of Google maps. Very intuitive and user friendly. Drives my wife nuts because she works for the GIS (geographic information systems) software competitor ESRI. I think their software drives Mapqueast but to be fair, their software is a lot more sophisticated than Mapquest. Still I remain a Google Maps fan. Can you show us how to snip the code?
Ben
22 Aug 07 at 12:45 pm
Click the ‘just released’ link above!!
Gary
22 Aug 07 at 1:27 pm
Can you limit the size of the speech bubbles so that they fall within the boundaries of the inage?
Gary
22 Aug 07 at 1:28 pm
Maybe put some s into your comentary?
Gary
22 Aug 07 at 1:29 pm
sorry – software took out the break tag I suggested in my previous post…
Brandon
22 Aug 07 at 4:03 pm
Anytime I get onto Google maps I’m usually stuck there for an hour just looking at different sights- and this is no exception. Great guide, Ben- finally somebody’s bringing bar-hopping into the 21st century! haha
Margot
22 Aug 07 at 6:02 pm
What signifigance is there to the fact that your 1st jolly example points us straight to the bars (hic)
(Ben’s got his priiorities right!)
greytop
23 Aug 07 at 7:55 am
Impressive Ben! Any way to automatically stop these type of links (maps, videos, photos etc) appearing in “quotes” of posts? Otherwise the threads will get longer and longer. I usually delete them but many don’t.
greytop
23 Aug 07 at 10:49 am
Nice use of the feature here on 20minutos news site
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/268850/0/madeleine/secuestro/desaparecida/
Ben
24 Aug 07 at 10:07 am
Gary – yes, it is annoying that the lines don’t wrap.
Margot – no significance
GT – sorry, no idea how to stop them repeating in quotes – the user has to take them out manually I think…
GregC
24 Aug 07 at 4:14 pm
Yes, the map is cool but the bars are better! We took our first trip to Spain this summer and rented an apartment on Calle del Almendro. I could easily have spent the whole time just in the neighborhood.
leftbanker
25 Aug 07 at 7:20 pm
Magellan circumnavigated the globe almost entirely without maps using dead reckoning, the stars and sun, and the smell of the sea. Today we have maps generated by satellite imagery, and GPS locators to pinpoint any spot on earth. You use these modern-day marvels to locate cool bars. We should hang out some time and compare notes.
Ben
26 Aug 07 at 9:59 am
whenever you like
gary
28 Aug 07 at 10:45 am
Ben – will the lines accept html? (br /) ?
Ben
28 Aug 07 at 11:29 am
I have inserted some line breaks just by hitting return, should be ok now. Shame google hasn’t worked out how to do this on its own!
Gary
29 Aug 07 at 7:37 pm
Much better though…