{"id":1169,"date":"2008-10-21T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/neat-feature-on-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T04:46:49","slug":"neat-feature-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/neat-feature-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat Feature on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea how long this feature on Google Maps has been around, but I’m sure glad I found it…<\/p>\n

Back story:\u00a0 A month or so ago, I wanted to see where my maternal and paternal grandparents lived in relation to one another.\u00a0 I looked at Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps for something that would allow me to tag several locations, but came up empty.\u00a0 Being the impatient person that I am, I gave up.\u00a0 But then…<\/p>\n

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A few days ago, I was faced with a similar dilemma, trying to map out a cemetery adventure for my upcoming weekend get-away to Chicago.\u00a0 Back to Google Maps I went, in search of the same functionality I looked for before.\u00a0 After getting frustrated once again, I saw it:\u00a0 My Maps…<\/p>\n

\"google1\" Just a text link, below the search box, practically hidden, it called to me.\u00a0 So I clicked it.\u00a0 At first I didn’t know what to do.\u00a0 I clicked on the “Create new map” link and was prompted for a title, description, and privacy setting.\u00a0 I went ahead and put in a title and selected “unlisted” as my privacy setting (hey, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into).\u00a0 Still not knowing what I was doing, I saved it and that seemed to be it.\u00a0 Great I saved a map of the U.S., now what?\u00a0 And then I saw it…<\/p>\n

\"google5\" Handy dandy tools, of particular interest was a “pin.”\u00a0 So I clicked on it and dropped it on the map, and viola!\u00a0 Up popped a dialog box asking for the title and description.\u00a0 I filled them in, clicked on the pin tool again, dropped it on the map, and…<\/p>\n

I basically went pin-happy.\u00a0 I kept going, thinking this was the coolest thing since sliced bread.\u00a0 I kept plotting away and on the left side of the screen, it kept a tally of all my pins with their titles and descriptions.\u00a0 You can even change the pin color and\/or style, which comes in handy for categorizing or grouping.<\/p>\n

I’ve plotted my cemetery adventure using this tool.\u00a0 For the title, I use the name of the cemetery.\u00a0 In the description, I include the address and a list of people I’m searching for.\u00a0 When I print out the map, it includes all of the information after the map, similar in the layout used for driving directions.\u00a0 Below are samples:\u00a0 map view, side-panel view, and print view.<\/p>\n

\"google2\"<\/p>\n

\"google3\"<\/p>\n

\"google4\"<\/p>\n

Next on the list…plotting my grandparents as I mentioned earlier.\u00a0 I’m so very excited!<\/p>\n

There appears to be many other things you can do, but for my purposes, this was enough for me.\u00a0 Besides, I was already on pin-overload…I couldn’t take much more excitement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no idea how long this feature on Google Maps has been around, but I’m sure glad I found it… Back story:\u00a0 A month or so ago, I wanted to see where my maternal and paternal grandparents lived in relation to one another.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25,29],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-technology-genblog","tag-tools-tech-google","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-29-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-iR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}