This is something of a test post. It provides some useful information about Google Maps. The embedded map shows you where the Byrd Memorial is, in Wellington (the blue balloon). If you click on the map you can zoom in, look at the photo I attached to the balloon, read some other information. Click the link to visit the larger map and you can even call up driving directions or download an overlay into Google Earth.

Google Maps has added a new feature that makes it possible to add embedded maps to your Website or blog, just as you might a YouTube video. No special computer skills required.

The best part of this new feature is once you embed a map on your site, it has all the functionality of a regular Google Map. Users can click, drag, and zoom in and out. There are all kinds of creative possibilites for nonprofits to use embedded Google Maps on their site. You could post a map to your nonprofit’s location or driving directions to an event location. The height and width values of each map are adjustable to it fits to your Webpage or blog.

[Via : YouTube-style Embeddable Google Maps | TechSoup Blog.]

Here’s a test map I made:

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