{"id":9,"date":"2007-11-18T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2022-06-05T05:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T10:21:59","slug":"google-maps-my-maps-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/google-maps-my-maps-capability\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps &#8211; &#8220;My Maps&#8221; Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve embedded a number of Google Maps on pages throughout my website using the API for a variety of different personal interests, including my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/brewery-map\/\">Brewery Visit map<\/a> and my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/genealogy\/watertown.html\">Family Descendants in Dodge &amp; Jefferson Counties map<\/a>. They weren&#8217;t particularly difficult to put together. However, they did require at least a rudimentary understanding of HTML, XML and javascript. The biggest &#8220;pain&#8221; was actually gathering all of the required longitude \/ latitude coordinates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dotcompals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3463\/3183389393_4849274852_w.jpg\" alt=\"google maps new favicon. Screen print by Prashanth dotcompals; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind I decided to try Google&#8217;s &#8220;My Maps&#8221; capability. Would it be useful for&nbsp;throwing together a simple map in a blog setting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first attempt was my&nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=8\">Virginia, West of West Virginia<\/a> entry. I have to say that it impressed me. I found it easy to navigate. 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