Comments on: Google Maps Bookmarklet

By: JanMartin

JanMartin — Fri, 27 May 2005 19:44:25 +0000

OK,
this will open any selected address in a new window (or tab if you set Firefox to do so) and show a googel map:

javascript:window.open(href=’http://maps.google.com/maps?q=’+window.getSelection())();

JanMartin

By: JanMartin

JanMartin — Fri, 27 May 2005 19:25:22 +0000

I had to made a small change to get this to work at Linux (Kanotix, a Debian SID), running Firefox 1.0.4:

Original
javascript:window.location.href=â€™http://maps.google.com/maps?q=â€™+window.getSelection();
changed:
javascript:window.location.href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?q=”+window.getSelection();

All i did is replace the â€™ by ”

JanMartin

By: ColumnNetwork.org

ColumnNetwork.org — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:21:51 +0000

Google Maps

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“My colleague Ken Tompkins recently sent along a link to John Udellâ€™s Walking Tour of Keene. The short video demonstrates how Udell used Google Maps in concert with a bookmarklet to create a walking to…

By: Tales from the Motherboard

Tales from the Motherboard — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:32:59 +0000

My House! And Yours!

This is a picture of the top of my house taken by a satellite and gathered by me simply by typing my address into Google Maps. Well, almost the top of my house. I don’t actually live in a rabbit-hole in the park….

By: Hermes

Hermes — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:19:59 +0000

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By: Follower

Follower — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:44:53 +0000

The following bookmarklet will follow a plotted route from start to finish, moving the map as appropriate:

javascript: (function () {mv = function(i) { c = _m.map.directions.polyline.getPoint(i);_m.map.recenterOrPanToLatLng(c); if (i < _m.map.directions.polyline.numPoints - 1) {window.setTimeout("mv("+(i+1) + ")",500)}}; mv(0)})();

It works best when you’ve zoomed in pretty closely. It has no error checking so ensure you have actually got directions currently listed. It takes no notice of the zoom level nor how many points there are in the route, so it could take a long time if the route is long. Obviously there are improvements that can be made along those lines.

I’ve tested this under FireFox 1.0 on Mac OS X, I’d be interested to know if it works successfully elsewhere.

More details can be found in the comments at: http://jgwebber.blog[...]-google.html

(Apologies for the multiple attempts the “less than” character was not being converted to an entity by the comment post code.

By: brianpuccio.net

brianpuccio.net — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:00:51 +0000

Google Maps Bookmarklet
Following up on

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:06:38 +0000

Here’s an updated version that should work anywhere:

javascript:var url = ‘http://maps.google.c[...]etSelection){url+=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){url+=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){url+=document.selection.createRange().text;}window.location.href=url;

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:50:50 +0000

Here’s my contribution (let’s try this again) to the google maps bookmarklets:

Google Maps

I couldn’t get the link to post correctly, so you’ll want to edit it to look like: javascript:window.location.href=’http://maps.google.com/maps?q=’+window.getSelection();

If you just click the bookmark it will take you to Google Maps, but if you select an address on the page first it will show you the map for that address. If the address isn’t complete (ex. you only have the street address, the search filed will be populated with that and you can add the city to get the map).

Here’s a sample address to try it out on: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC

I’ve only tested this on Firefox, as that’s what I use.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:28:00 +0000

Here's my contribution to the google maps bookmarklets:
Google Maps
If you just click the bookmark it will take you to Google Maps, but if you select an address on the page first it will show you the map for that address. If the address isn't complete (ex. you only have the street address, the search filed will be populated with that and you can add the city to get the map).
Here's a sample address to try it out on: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC

By: echeng

echeng — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:38:33 +0000

David — that is awesome. Thank you! I wasn’t aware of keywording bookmarks. It’s going to change my life.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:19:37 +0000

I know about custom keywords, but I don’t use them (Saft also adds them to Safari). I generally search templates in LaunchBar.

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:54:50 +0000

One last note, the directions URL in the last one won’t retrieve anything because 123 Street 99999 is a fake address.

Here’s real directions from a real address: Directions from the White House to New York

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:46:44 +0000

Alex, you need to bookmark them in Firefox, and add a keyword to the bookmark. For instance, I have a bookmark with keyword "gd" with the url "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from%20123%20Street%2099999%20to%20%s" (except my real address. Now, if I type "gd new york" in Camino's location bar and hit enter, it magically goes to "this URL", which gives me directions from my house to new york. The key is that Camino (and Firefox) will replace "%s" in the URL with whatever you have after the keyword (properly encoding spaces as %20 and other entities with their hex equivalents). You might wanna check Mozilla Custom Keywords. There are a couple hacks to get keywords in Safari: Sogudi and SafariKeywords. I can't vouch for either since I'm hooked to Camino/Firefox. You can also do similar searches in Quicksilver. Hope that clears it up a bit. Anyways, nice site, keep up the good work.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:10:28 +0000

David, your URLs don’t seem to work for me.