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Using Google Maps in Wordpress blog

• Create a separate html page that uses Google MAPS API containing what you want to show in your wordpress blog entry. Link to a Google Maps example with marker, listener and info window.

• Include this html file in a iframe tag in the blog entry as shown below. This is best done by disabling Wordpress’s visual rich editor under Dashboard, Options->Writing.

          <iframe width="500" scrolling="no"
           height="300" frameborder="0" align="
           middle" title="Google Maps Example"
          src="http://www.rajgad.com/wfiles/code/gmaps_hotyogacenter.html">
          An interactive Google Maps example </iframe>

• Here is how a custom interactive Google Map looks in a wordpress blog entry.

• If you need more details techrageo.us has them in adding Google Maps to your wordpress blog entry.

Google Maps API links

• Sign for Google Maps API key.

A Google MAPs API key is needed per top level directory where the html pages containing the Google Maps will reside on your web server. The API key generation process is automated and you get the key right away.

• Google Maps API tutorial and Google Maps API reference

The main documentation page that covers the basics and has examples for many features like marker (to show a location), info window(the popup), etc

• Google Maps API groups

For discussions by developers and ability to search old posts.

• Google Maps plugins for ruby

• Articles on Google maps and polygons (Areas like hike or jogging track highlighted on Google maps)

* Polylines from database (MySQL) Example and Polylines from database tutorial

* An interactive Google Maps Polygon creator, click on two points or more on the map to a create a polygon.

• Articles on Google maps and GIS\Geocoding (Long\Lat and zip codes)

* How chicagocrime.org shows zipcodes on Google Maps: Gets free GIS data from the City of Chicago, uses PostgreSQL’s PostGIS spatial-database package to import it and uses a Python script that encodes latitude/longitude points into Google’s proprietary line-generation format.

* Drawing zipcode boundaries on Google maps and tutorial on who to retrieve zip code data from maps.huge.info