Adding Google Maps to Blogs or Emails

Video Transcript

"MAN: So the cool thing about Google Maps is you can actually embed a map in your Web site, blog or even a site like MySpace, basically, any place that's going to accept an HTML embed code. So I'm going to show you how to do that. And you can embed any map you want. If you just search for a location and then a map comes up, you can embed that map. You can embed one of your--a map you create using My Maps. So you can--any map that's on your screen, if that's the one you want to embed, you can do that. And to do that, you just go to the link to this page, and then you go to the paste HTML to embed in Web site right here, and what you do is you will copy and paste this. But before I show you how that works, I'm going to go to customize and preview your embedded map. And this lets you customize it just like the name applies. So this is pretty cool. And you can make it smaller. You can make it really large. Or if you know exactly what your dimensions are going to be, you can customize it. So these are the only options you really get, but I'll just click it on small. And then what I'll do is I'll go down here and I'll copy that code, and you could post this on a Web site. I'm going to show you how it works in a blog. So I'll just post this and publish my post--or, excuse me, paste this into my blog, and then now you can see what it looks like. And it's a fully functional, well, an almost fully functional Google Map right there on your blog. And you can see I can still click on everything. It's a little bit small. Maybe I should have made it a little bit bigger. I could just go back and re-embed it, though. And you got the same--most of the same features you see on Google Maps. Zooming in and out works the same way. You double-click it went in, you can switch to satellite view. So that's just a real cool thing, and it's especially useful if maybe you're on a small business, and you can just put the map of your location right there on your Web page without having to worry about making up your own map. You can add this fully functional, really cool Google Map to your site. So that's how you embed a map in another Web site or in your Web site or in a blog."