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Add an interactive map to your farm website

By simon.huntley
Created 02/22/2008 - 17:17
Adding a basic, interactive map to your farm website is easy with the wonderful mapping tools that have come out in the last few years. My favorite is the Google Maps [1] package. Have you seen street view [2] (2 [3])?

Google maps makes it easy.Google maps makes it easy.
To add an interactive map to your website (like Stargazers Vineyard [4]):
  1. Go to http://maps.google.com [5]
  2. Type your address in the main text box and click "Search maps"
  3. Once you have located the spot you want to map to, click the "Link to this page" link in the top right corner of the map.
  4. In the resulting menu click "Customize and preview embedded map."
  5. You will be given some customization options. When you are done, simply take the code shown in the "Copy and paste this HTML to embed in your website" box and put it in your website.

Then you have a nice, interactive map that adds some zip to your farm website.

A future post might detail how to add street view (as seen in the links above) to your own website! But that would only work for urban farms until Google extends the coverage.

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http://smallfarmcentral.com/blog/feb/2008/google-map-farm-website