So, it only took a few minutes to make an embeddable map for this Typepad blog. It is as easy as they say but it’s also got the big ‘ole black box feeling to it. I have many a though about the black boxing of maps, but let me type up the steps to get a map
- Uploaded a test kml file to my Typepad blog account and copied the path
- Opened the kml in Google Maps
- Selected “Link to this page”
- Selected option “Paste HTML to embed in website New!” option and copied shown html code
- Started a new post in Typepad
- Pasted html code into the “Edit HTML” tab of my Edit Post entry
- Saved and published and tada
So the main pain in the ass thing is that you then have to type the rest of your post by actually coding in the basic html paragraph tags etc. However, if I had actually written the post first in the “Compose Post” tab non of the p-tagging would be going on right now
This is pretty cool and it is only the tip of the iceburg in the world of spatially located information
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