Google Maps: Now Embeddable, Just Like YouTube Videos

by Joey deVilla on August 21, 2007

Expect to see more maps embedded in blog entries shortly: Google Maps are now embeddable, YouTube-style. No longer do you need an API key or JavaScript know-how to add a Google Map to your blog entries and web pages — if you know how to embed a YouTube video, you also know how to embed a Google Map. Congratulations to Google on a job well done!

I decided to try it out by getting the code to embed a map showing the location of the Tucows head office, shown below:


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