Going to SLA after all! (& Google’s My Maps)
I’m so excited that I will be going to the SLA annual conference after all! My sweetie gave me an early birthday gift: funds to cover the costs of going to Denver. Luckiest girl ever!
I’ve been spending the last hour or so mapping out potential hotels and must-visit places on Google’s very cool “My Maps”. Have you seen this yet? It was mentioned on Slaw a couple weeks and I’ve been mucking around with it, creating maps for various purposes. You can mark up a map with your own placemarkers, route diagrams, annotations (including photo & video), etc., and then keep it private for yourself or those with whom you share the URL, or publish it for the world to see on Google Maps & Google Earth.
I can see tonnes of potential uses for this. Imagine making a map for your client with placemarkers for the office, hotel, transportation, etc. Or a map for friends visiting from out of town, listing your favourite restaurants, shops, and landmarks. The possibilities are many.
But…you can’t print off a “My Map” with the placemark data intact. Well, you can print some of the data by File>Print but it doesn’t look very good. A screenshot might be ok, too, but not perfect.
I searched Google Groups to see if maybe I was missing something, but it looks like lots of people are having the same problem. Hopefully Google’s pros will get on this soon.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:47 am
I put together a map using My Maps detailing the hotels and restaurants for the 2007 SLA Conference June 3 to 6, 2007 in Denver, Colorado. Check it out.
http://yankeeincanada.typepad.com/yankee_in_canada/2007/04/sla_2007_confer.html
The printing is a problem for sure. I have also been trying to figure out how, if it’s possible, to get the map on Google Maps on a handheld device, such as a Blackberry. Not such luck yet, but that’d be very cool.