Testing Whether I Can Post A Custom Google Map

[drrich2]

Post link into thread:

Grand Cayman Custom Map

Post using the chain link button:

Grand Cayman Custom Map

Try with Image button:

Try with Media button:

Can't be embedded, I'm told.

With Insert (code) button:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zAOpAa6WAGe4.kUSRccSQqXlc&usp=sharing

 

[The Chairman]

Interesting concept, DrRich! I hope you figure this out.

 

[John A Lewis]

First two worked for me. It was a pleasure, in fact, to zoom in enough that I could trace the various routes I took when walking the island-even to places I'd stop at to cool off or have a bite to eat.

 

[drrich2]

Thanks. What I wish I could do is post the graphic right into a post, like we do an image. Here's what inspired this. I've got a Cayman Aggressor IV trip lined up for mid-May, Lord willing and providing I get to go. If that all works out, I hope to write a trip report. With my trip reports, I sometimes like to include a brief overview of the dive destination, to help people new to it catch up to snuff fast, with links to help them to research elsewhere in more depth.

I did a custom map to show at-a-glance where Cobalt Coast, Lighthouse Point/DiveTech, Sunshine Suites Resort, Sunset House, Turtle Nest Inn and Compass Point/Ocean Frontiers are on the island. You can see fast that C.P./O.F. is a long ways from Georgetown and Seven Mile Beach. Good for some people, bad for others.

Bottom Line: I don't see a way to do it on a forum post. People can click a link to go look at the map. Closest I could come would be somehow copy the map as a graphic; if I could just link to it, like a frame on a webpage, not only would zooming work, but I think any copyright concerns would be addressed, too.

Richard.

 

[hsinhai]

Google has a static image map api which you can add custom markers.. i suspect it should be able to embed as a regular graphic. If not you could save the image elsewhere first..

 

[hsinhai]

downside it is not interactive.. anyway info here:

Google Static Maps API  |  Google Developers