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Mapping travels with Google

I am quite excited about adding a Google map to my site. That way I could show where I have travelled in the past. For this post I tried to simply copy the code from my Picasa Web Album to this blog. That did not work though. I had to take a snapshot of the little map in my gallery – far from what I had in mind. Of course, I may not always have photos uploaded to Google either. In other words I will have to provide coordinates to build the map.

The documentation on Google’s pages for their API is pretty good. However, to get the coordinates for all of one’s trips organized it would be nice to auto-generate the JavaScript code from a database. Anyone have an easy-to-use way to do this, leave a comment, pleeease.