One of the sad things abut living in the Philippines is there are no good maps available on-line. One can, though, us the overhead imagery (satellite and aerial) photos in Google Maps as a substitute. It’s really pretty simple.
First go to www.maps.google.com.
This is the default view you will see. If you do not already have a Google Account you’ll need to set one up. I recommend getting a Google Mail (gmail) account, it’s very useful … but you can use any existing email account as your “Google Account”. Once you sign in with a valid Google account you’ll see that the “My maps” tab is active. You can make as many Google Maps in your account as you care to and Google stores them and serves them for you.
If you want to make Google Maps open somewhere else aside from it’s default US-wide view, just navigate to the view you’d like and select the “Make This My default Location” link …
Save and give the new map a title. When you do Google will then supply a little tools menu in the top left map corner. Among the things you can do is add a “Place Mark”, complete with text in a popup note window, a line, or a shape, anywhere you chose.
When you’re done, save the map again and look in the top right corner. Click the link that says “Link to this page” and a window will open with two URL’s (web addresses) in separate boxes.
As the labels say, the first URL can be sent to anyone via email and will open the map you just made on anyone else’s computer … they won’t be able to change it or see your account information. The second URL can be pasted into any web page or blog post and “presto” an instant map for your visitors to interact with.
Make a map of where you live, where your friends live, where all the aunts and uncles live, you favorite site seeing places, restaraunts … you name it.
Pretty clever these Google guys.
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