Comments on: Add Google Maps driving directions to your website

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:17:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip! It’s exactly was I was looking for.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:46:08 +0000

Maps are a very useful tool for me and this information is extremely useful for my website. Thanks for putting it together.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 08 May 2010 22:00:12 +0000

I had the same issue as unRheal, but I figured if I did then someone else probably did too, so I looked at the comments, took his/her suggestion to redo the quotes and it worked just beautifully! Thanks so much for the quick info.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:17:41 +0000

Excellent, just what I was looking for.

What would be even better, is when you click on ‘get directions’, it opened a window (similar to a popup window) so it doesn’t open a new browser.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for the article!

By: Dhruv

Dhruv — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:51:58 +0000

Good guide about getting google map integration working on your own site.

By: Brad p

Brad p — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:26:32 +0000

I am looking for a way to have a program send an address to a website that then automatically opens google maps with that address for the destination. For example a dispatcher of a fire call would text or email the address to a website. The destination address shows in on the users screen with the map. The starting gpoint would be the fire station. Does that make sense? Can I do that with what you posted?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:05:49 +0000

Works like a dream, as i live in france, no probs either.

Excellent

Many thanks

Mike

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:44:58 +0000

Is there a way to use this same or similar code and have the page that opens go directly to the printable driving directions with or without the map? or is that something Google would frown on?

like this link shows

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=lansing+mi&daddr=east+lansing+mi&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=42.634465,-84.558695&sspn=0.49303,0.883026&ie=UTF8&z=13&layer=c&pw=2

By: omar

omar — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:24:10 +0000

this is great!

just added a Google Map to my wedding website .. thanks a lot!

special thanks to unRheal as well!! I did the Ctrl + F and replaced the slanting quotes with the right ones.. genious! saved me a lot of time that is for sure!

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By: mary

mary — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:23:44 +0000

Thanks so much for providing this information!

By: mojomonger

mojomonger — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:32:30 +0000

the “t=h” nomenclature translates to “type=hybrid” – google uses HYRBID to describe satellite maps.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:18:46 +0000

I adde this feature, and it’s great, but any idea how to add a dropdown for multiple office locations?

By: Mars

Mars — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:58:08 +0000

Thanks, Works like a gem!! ;0)

By: unRheal

unRheal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:02:45 +0000

Nick: (you probably already figured it out, but just in case…) I tried copying and pasting the code from this page into the “code” view of a trivial web page in Dreamweaver, and when I tried to preview/debug it I ended up with a strange page with 3 fields and bits of text displayed that didn’t function at all. I’d saved it to an .htm file, so I just directly loaded that file in IE myself with similar results… but when I went “view source” in IE, the problem was clearly that copying and pasting directly from this page had caused the double quote charcters to come up as some fancy slanted quotes that neither firefox nor IE considered to be actual double quotes.

So I just used a text editor to do a quick search and replace – I selected one of the funky quotes, and copied it, and used that to search “for” and then just put a real double quote character to “replace” and replaced ‘em all, saved it… then re-loaded it back up into Dreamweaver… and *then* it would load/debug in IE and function properly – I actually got directions when I submitted a valid location.

As I say, you probably got it all figured out already, but maybe this’ll save someone a few minutes of confusion, as I experienced while trying to figure out why the copy-pasted code wasn’t working!