Pauline at Slowtrav has been working on a Google Maps feature for our classified ads on slowtrav.com (probably offered in August).
It's still in Beta (both with her and Google), and instructions also apply to personal websites.
Non-public info. at:
http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/
and stacks of other links for the techniques employed.
Hours of fun (you can swoop in from a satellite and see Alan K. cleaning his pool for instance). Being able to add captioned markers to one's local area map is a seriously cool feature.
I'm not clued up enough to know whether adding Javascript to one's personal website will be a problem (i.e. using blogtype software) or whether special features are required from one's webhost. Will research, but perhaps a LMH guru could comment?
Enjoy.
Goat
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For the Francophile who wants to keep a close eye on their poubelle,
http://www.geoportail.fr
is worth a go, although you may have to join the 10m who crashed the site last week.
When you zoom in the resolution doesn't look that good, but if you give it a while to settle down, the pixels start behaving and you get a good image.
And being French, it's France, take it or leave it.
There's an interesting political point here: with Google, it's the World - no nonsense.
(Inde 26jun06 p.16)
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http://www.geoportail.fr
is worth a go, although you may have to join the 10m who crashed the site last week.
When you zoom in the resolution doesn't look that good, but if you give it a while to settle down, the pixels start behaving and you get a good image.
And being French, it's France, take it or leave it.
There's an interesting political point here: with Google, it's the World - no nonsense.
(Inde 26jun06 p.16)
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Goat,
Absolutely no problem with adding javascript to your site, just consider the following points:
- javascript is not read by the majority of search engines
- javascript needs to be turned on in the users browser for it to function (vast majority have it turned on)
- complex javascripts can slow a page down, particualy if they are calling multiple functions from remote locations. Try to keep all scripts on your own server.
Very useful though, a lot of websites use it to some extent, including me.
Dave
Absolutely no problem with adding javascript to your site, just consider the following points:
- javascript is not read by the majority of search engines
- javascript needs to be turned on in the users browser for it to function (vast majority have it turned on)
- complex javascripts can slow a page down, particualy if they are calling multiple functions from remote locations. Try to keep all scripts on your own server.
Very useful though, a lot of websites use it to some extent, including me.
Dave