googlemaps

Google Maps Example

Google Maps is one of the newest babies of Google. They have got a public http://maps.google.com/apis/maps/ to display maps on the own page. You have to http://maps.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html to be allowed to use the service on the own site. You get a key that is valid for a single website URL.

Note that they are a bit picky about the URL: just the domain is not enough, the URL is expected to be the parent folder of where your document containing the google map code resides. This page's URL is http://www.stefanrufer.ch/snipsnap/space/stefan/googlemaps so the URL to be registered has to be http://www.stefanrufer.ch/snipsnap/space/stefan/

It looks really nice, tough:

The code for this is:

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=1&key=ABQIAAAAqt0iryCBLWQEJ581k03Y8hSIY88rFBuRK_yxPA1AJWCV3kpccxQsarHVkL-02cWORczlPOOG7a5A2w" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="map" style="width: 500px; height: 400px"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var map = new GMap(document.getElementById("map"));
  map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
  map.centerAndZoom(new GPoint(-122.1419, 37.4419), 4);
</script>