Posted on January 11, 2010, 10:02 pm, by admin, under
Web Mapping.
I have talked about embedded maps before, but Map Channels have released a new tool, Switch Maps, which allows you to easily embed a maps in a web page. But the cool thing is that you can select from your map provider of choice (Google, Bing, Open Street Map, Yahoo, etc).
So for example here is [...]
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Now I have shifted the hosting of my blog off wordpress.com, I have the luxury of being able to put iFrames and JavaScript in my blog posts and pages. So I decided it was about time I had a slippy map on my blog and have added one to my sidebar (just look to the [...]
Martin Daly has done a review of embedded map tools and Multimap comes out top. More details on how to use this are here.
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 [...]