Easy Google Maps on your church website
7 September 2007Previously I looked at how to add simple maps to your church website, but for a wordpress site this was complicated, because of the artificiall nature of the directory structure if the site is using re-written URLs. Basically a plugin was required.
Now Google has provided another mechanism for including maps that can be inserted simply by embedding them in pages. All that is needed is to copy some HTML code and paste into your church’s webpage.
You need to login to your account on Google and click on ‘Maps’, then ‘My Maps’ to get started. When you are happy with the map, you can click the ‘emded this in a webpage link’ on the right hand side. If your map is of a church in the UK, then I recommend signing into Google from Google UK, as I had problems otherwise.
You can add other features easily to the map, such as other important points nearby to the church. For example, car parks and travel facilities (trains, buses etc.). This become clickable, and can contain other helpful information.
You can see it in action on my church’s website.
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Hey, I just found Church Blogger and looking at the dates was unsure or not if you were still going to be writing on it.
I’d love to see more posts.
Thanks for your kind comments. I hope to write more, but have been busy with family things recently.
I just finished developing a series of website for a community center and I found a great tool to provide transit directions for free to visitors, sort of like mapquest. The tool is found at http://www.publicroutes.com/webtools/webtools.aspx
I found it realy easy to use and got huge kudos from another client which is a Journal with a conference up and coming in the UK JLTRM.
DSmith
Thanks for the tip - I had been making this way too hard, screwing around with the api.
Thanks for the tip - We had been making this way too hard, screwing around with the api.