[ILUG] [OT] Linking to Google Maps

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Sun Feb 12 11:14:55 GMT 2006


On 12 Feb 2006, at 11:00, Tony Groves wrote:

> I have a website which contains a link to Google Maps showing the  
> location of the company's premises:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.3759N 
> +6.3079W&t=k&ll=53.371885,-6.294479&spn=0.018563,0.042357&t=h
> That works fine, but one improvement I would like to make is to have
> the "info bubble" show the premises name instead of its coordinates.
> Anybody know if this is possible?

Yes, it is.  You can use the Google Maps API to include arbitrary  
overlays and markers.

	http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

		Colm

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