[ILUG] [OT] Linking to Google Maps

[Tony Groves]

Colm Buckley wrote:
> 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

Thanks for that, Colm.

I was hoping I could avoid getting involved in the API; it looks 
impressive but seems OTT for my simple needs. If anybody knows of a 
"description" argument that I could just attach to the URL, that would 
be be perfect.


Tony.