Don’t have a Google map on your institution website yet? What are you waiting for?
Ok, don’t feel bad. I haven’t put one on my website yet either. But, things got a bit easier for us thanks to a friendly librarian, Chris Deweese (Lewis & Clark Library System) and his presentation at HigherEdBlogCon.
In “Google Maps and You: Five Steps To Including a Google Map On Your Website,” Deweese does an excellent job at explaining how to create and configure a Google map pointing to a single location in just 5 steps:
1. Get a Google Map API Key
2. Set up the page
3. Get your Lat/Long
4. Configure the map’s JavaScript code
5. Save & Publish
It’s so well explained, why not ask your favorite student aide to take care of this small project for you?
You can also take a shortcut: get the code, add your API key at line 4, replace latitude and longitude coordinates at line 11 and edit the HTML starting at line 17 with adequate information about the location you’re mapping.
But, our friendly librarian doesn’t stop there.
He also gives a method to create a map including information about several locations by adding an XML file to the mix.