Google Earth Hacks has just unveiled YourMap and I think it’ll be a great tool for smaller churches to use. In a nutshell, it’s a simple tool to embed a Google Map on your page. Some details:
- Fill out a short form and the HTML code is generated for you.
- Paste the code on your site. This should work for virtually any kind of site — no server-side scripting language (PHP, ASP, etc) required.
- Along with the Google Map, a Google Earth KML file is generated to share with your users.
- All of that can be done in well under five minutes.
Check out their demo page, or just try it yourself. When you submit your details, it shows a demo right on their page so you know what it would look like on your site.
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This would be great if the names of the streets on the map were correct, but they are the old ones. New names were assigned most of our streets at least ten years ago. Interestingly enough, they have a few of the new and correct names but the majority are the old and now incorrect names. Anyway to contact them to let them know they have incorrect data?
Google gets their data from both NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. If you report the problem to them, it will eventually find it’s way into a future Google Maps update. Here are the links you need:
http://mapfeedback.teleatlas.com/index.htm
http://mapreporter.navteq.com/
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