La Latina bars, Madrid, and Google Maps
by Ben Curtis
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:
Posted: August 22nd, 2007 under Madrid, Spain Travel.
Comments: 16
Comments
Comment from ValenciaSon
Time: August 22, 2007, 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?
Comment from Ben
Time: August 22, 2007, 12:45 pm
Click the ‘just released’ link above!!
Comment from Gary
Time: August 22, 2007, 1:27 pm
Can you limit the size of the speech bubbles so that they fall within the boundaries of the inage?
Comment from Gary
Time: August 22, 2007, 1:28 pm
Maybe put some s into your comentary?
Comment from Gary
Time: August 22, 2007, 1:29 pm
sorry - software took out the break tag I suggested in my previous post…
Comment from Brandon
Time: August 22, 2007, 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
Comment from Margot
Time: August 22, 2007, 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!)
Comment from greytop
Time: August 23, 2007, 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.
Comment from greytop
Time: August 23, 2007, 10:49 am
Nice use of the feature here on 20minutos news site
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/268850/0/madeleine/secuestro/desaparecida/
Comment from Ben
Time: August 24, 2007, 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…
Comment from GregC
Time: August 24, 2007, 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.
Comment from leftbanker
Time: August 25, 2007, 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.
Comment from Ben
Time: August 26, 2007, 9:59 am
whenever you like 
Comment from gary
Time: August 28, 2007, 10:45 am
Ben - will the lines accept html? (br /) ?
Comment from Ben
Time: August 28, 2007, 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!
Comment from Gary
Time: August 29, 2007, 7:37 pm
Much better though…
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