Posts tagged ‘maps’
Google Maps printing oddity
June 3rd, 2011 at 10:29 pm by Dr. Drang
While the Google Maps scroll/zoom confusion I blogged about last week has been around for years, the printing problem I ran into today seems new. It’s a case of Google doing things right initially and then screwing it up later. I have a packed schedule on Monday. A meeting in Joliet in the morning and…
Embedded Google maps
July 14th, 2010 at 11:52 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m my company’s default webmaster, and I spent a few hours today learning how to embed Google maps into our web pages. I figured I’d write up an example before I forget. There’s a whole family of Google Maps APIs, covering JavaScript, Flash, static images, Google Earth images, and more. The JavaScript API makes the…
Google Maps bike route fix
April 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am by Dr. Drang
As I said at the end of this post last month, I sent Google a bug report about their new bicycling directions. I had tested out the new feature by asking it for the directions from my home to office, a route that I bike almost every weekday 8-9 months of the year. The directions…
Google bike directions
March 10th, 2010 at 11:59 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been using Google Maps to choose bike routes for years. The route I took today from my office to downtown Naperville, for example, uses a set of residential streets and sidewalks along busy roads that I first found by studying its aerial photos. Now Google has a specific option for getting bicycling directions. I…
