How to Add a Search Field on Google Maps for Your Website
Google Maps has made embedding search fields for maps online much easier, improving upon the performance of sites such as MapQuest by presenting maps in a simple, easy to understand way, and by offering helpful tools such as Street View and Satellite View. For businesses, Google Maps allows websites to place search fields for Google Maps directly onto their pages, and lets visitors type in their addresses and receive directions to business locations.
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Open your browser and go to googlemaps.com. Type in your location. Verify the location by zooming into the map; although usually correct, Google Maps sometimes flubs locations.
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Decide what kind of map you want as a search field on your site. Google Maps allows for the traditional overhead map or a satellite view, which shows birds-eye photographs of the map. Google also added "Street View" to its search field application, allowing you to incorporate on-the-road perspective onto your sites.
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Click the "link" button in the upper right corner of the page. A small menu will pop up including a link with the heading "Paste HTML to embed in website." Click on "customize" to adjust the height and width of your search field, or just choose between "small," "medium," and "large."
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Place the link into the HTML of your website in the position you wish the map to appear. The map will be embedded in your site, fixed in the location you selected.
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If you wish to include directions along with the Google Map, use the link below to install Google's simple to use "Gadget." When someone clicks on the map, a text box will pop up allowing him to enter a starting address, then will provide directions to your location.
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