Multimap.com – Now with Embedded Maps at Tim Warr’s Blog

Last week Multimap released a new service for small businesses, personal web sites and hobbyists. The service, available for free from www.multimap.com, provides a single line of HTML to cut and paste into a web page, like this:

So basically this allows you to easily embed a map in your website, without having to write any of that pesky JavaScript yourself.

The user gets a slippy map in a choice of map styles (Navteq, TeleAtlas, Ordnance Survey and Barts) or aerial for anywhere in the world (US included, using Virtual Earth maps and aerial). The pasted HTML includes hyperlinks back to www.multimap.com:

The service is limited to 50,000 transactions per year (which Multimap tracks) and cannot be used for internal applications (eg BI, CRM).

The uptake has been amazing, with over 500 web sites implementing the new embedded maps in the 1st week.

So how do I use it?

1. Go to Multimap.com

2. Search for a location

3. Select Link (top right of map)

4. Check the box for T&Cs and cut and paste the line of HTML which will look something like this:

<div id="MMEmbeddedMap" style="padding:8px">
<iframe width="500" height="400" frameborder="0"
scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"
src="http://www.multimap.com/client/embed/?lat=47.26269&lon=11.3947
&zoomFactor=17&mapType=hybrid&moveMap=-85,-394&
qs=innsbruck&emid=yAstqbmcYmb1ZLXDxu4eDCV95BurZAwb">
</iframe><div><a href="http://www.multimap.com/maps/?l
at=47.26269&lon=11.3947&zoomFactor=17">
View map of Innsbruck, Tirol (Tyrol), Austria</a>
on Multimap.com<br /><a href="http://www.multimap.com/maps/?
lat=47.26269&lon=11.3947&zoomFactor=17&mapType=oblique">
Bird's Eye view of Innsbruck, Tirol (Tyrol), Austria</a>
<br />Get directions <a href="http://www.multimap.com/directions/?
lat_2=47.26269&lon_2=11.3947&countryCode_2=AT&displayName_2=Innsbruck,
Tirol (Tyrol)&qs_2=Innsbruck, Tirol (Tyrol)">to</a>
 or <a href="http://www.multimap.com/directions/?
lat_1=47.26269&lon_1=11.3947&countryCode_1=AT
&displayName_1=Innsbruck, Tirol (Tyrol)&qs_1=Innsbruck, Tirol (Tyrol)"
>from</a> Innsbruck, Tirol (Tyrol), Austria</div></div>