Week 5 question

Create a simple embedded Google Maps interface for a web page.

Create a simple embedded Google Maps interface for a web page.
It is now possible to make use of simple functionality of Google Maps without
programming or knowledge of the use of Google Maps APIs. It is simple to embed
and to customise some features of the map such as the markers and the information
displayed in association with the markers.
To undertake this exercise you may need to have some very basic HTML
understanding and have access to a domain from where you can edit and serve a web
page. Some blog services will enable you to implement a Google Maps service. If this
is so where you have established your blog then try to complete the exercise there.
Following is a link to a regular html page that uses the iframe HTML tag that Google
Maps provided to call on and display a map of the location of CQU Mackay.
http://staff.cqu.edu.au/holmesa/MapWeb/map.html Google Maps also links to an
image located within the MapWeb directory of the holmesa staff website (when you
click on the map’s pin icon).
Until recently this used to be harder than it now is. You used to have to join Google
and apply for a key. Now its so simple anyone should be able to do it. Now you only
need the key when using the JavaScript Maps API v2 and the Maps API for Flash.


Below is an example of a the Google map api being used to embedded a Google map into a blog. The map show my home address 5 Parwan Close Riverhills Brisbane.




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