Yesterday, Google updated itslong-forgotten My Maps tool.
Using Atlanta’s own Dragon Con as an example, the event takes place over five hotels.
However, you might only care about events in two of them.
Or outside the official arenas.
you’re free to use layers to denote groups of events.
Make Your Own Educational Maps
Maps are a powerful tool for conveying information about an area.
As such, they’re excellent for teaching.
you might add text, images, or even YouTube videos to the annotations that accompany drawn shapes.
As a demonstration, inthis sample, I can create a field surrounding my home state of Georgia.
In most cases, you’ve got the option to justgive me the address.
However, sometimes it can get more complicated.
In the example above, I have directions from the old location of mylocal geek barto its new one.
Sharing is pretty easy, though embedding a map was a little hidden when I used it.
The embed function is a bit more confusing.
One of the options will be to “Embed on my site.”
