Comments on: Undocumented Google map trick

By: Luistxo - Tagzania

Luistxo - Tagzania — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:10:25 +0000

An additional tip explained here lets you open any location in any Google-maps-based mashup with Google Earth. No need for that with Tagzania as all our pages have KML, but useful for things that you may find elsewhere, a crime spot in Chicagcrime.org, a nice house in Housingmaps.com... The set of Tagzania bookmarklets for different sites (Multimap, Yahoo Maps Beta...) could also be adapted for direct KML downloading

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:25:45 +0000

Barry, you got in ahead of me! I was going to have a go at getting the URL directly from the link when I found a spare half hour. Well done! your link now replaces mine on my toolbar!

By: Barry Hunter

Barry Hunter — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:31:34 +0000

Seems it didn't like the javascript in a link, if you can't correct it then its posted here.

By: Barry Hunter

Barry Hunter — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:22:31 +0000

That's such a cool idea! If interested I have extended it slightly to work without having to click the 'link to this map link' first, as it tries to read the url direct from there! Hoping that it will let me post a javascript link here: gMaps2kml2 [tested in IE and firefox] (if it doesn't work will add it as an update to my blog)

By: David Brake

David Brake — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:36:09 +0000

Oops – I tell a lie – it *does* work for Google Maps France. I just forgot to click on the “get the URL” link first!

By: David Brake

David Brake — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:27:12 +0000

For what it’s worth it works fine on Google Maps UK on my Firefox 1.5 installation (on my Mac). Thanks! Doesn’t work with Google Maps France though.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:59:51 +0000

Nice.

The first thing I thought after reading the ‘&output=kml’ tip was a bookmarklet. But seeing that I don’t know anything about Java, it was a matter of waiting for someone to do it.

Now your bookmarklet lives in my bookmark bar. Thanks.