Get Directions - Google Map Link HTML

[forumposters]

Can someone please post instrucions on how to link to Google maps? That is, what do you append in the query string to view a map of an address with an from address input text box prompt?

 

[traingamer]

See: Put Google Maps on Your Own Web Site


Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[forumposters]

I don't want to embed the map in the page. I just want to link to the map on Google's site and have it start on the get directions page.

 

[ChrisHunt]

Just go to

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d

, type the place you want in the "To" box, drag/resize the map as you wish and click on the "Link to this page" link above the map and to the right. It will take you to a URL that displays a map as you've set it up - which you can the use to link to.

If you've actually got lots of places to link to, say you're pulling them from a database, try building a URL like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&q=

new+york

just put the place you want in the q parameter.


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