View Google Sky Through Your Web Browser!

Google unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software. The browser version allows you to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and galaxies and view the sky!

Embedding Google Mymaps Directly

As my earlier post showed how to embedd Google Maps into your website or blog using other external websites or sources. Google Maps NOW has this feature directly available from today as represented by the image below which shows where it is located:



Further info visit Digital Urban blog post.

Google Maps Image Cutter

Image Cutter is an application developed by CASA which takes any image and cuts it into tiles which then can be viewed interactively via a Google Map. Using this tool, the viewer is able to zoom and pan using the standard Google Map interface. This is a very useful tool to publish images on the web.

Below is an example using the Google Maps Image Cutter tool.



You can download Image Cutter for free which users java application to run the software and creates a html file and a directory folder of the tiled images which then can be uploaded to your server. For further info visit Digital Urban blog post.

How to embed a Google Map on your website or blog

There are quite a few websites which show you how to embed a Google Map on your website or blog. One of them is My Maps Plus. My Maps Plus is a site that lets you embed maps created using Google My Maps into any blog or website. Google My Maps feature allows you to create mashups which then can be embedded into your website or your blog (click here to view my previous blogpost on Google My Maps) . Another useful website is map-generator.net which allows you to generate your own map and embed it to your homepage. Other cool services include Frappr which is a web based community mapper another web 2.0 service developed after Google released the API for the Google Maps service.

Below is a map I created using Google My Maps and using My Maps Plus to embed it.






Further inf visit here or check previous blogs for Google maps and Google mapplets.

Google Maps: Draggable Driving Directions

Now you can customize your driving directions on Google Maps by simply dragging & dropping the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, route around traffic, or add multiple stops on your way.

Google Mapplets

Google Mapplets are a new feature of Google Maps that combines the Google Gadgets API with the Google Maps API to allow embedding mini-applications within the Google Maps website.