Google Maps, a small step forward web standards

Saturday, September 29 2007

Google Maps quite new wizard to embed a map on your site enable users to copy and past the code (you can also chose among a couple of customization options) directly on your web pages. The following is a sample code obtained this way (>>>> signal returns for formatting purposes):


<iframe width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" >>>> 
 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f= >>>> 

q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1600+Amphitheatre+ >>>> 

Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&amp;sll=37.423674,-122.084775&amp; >>>> 
sspn=0.001018,0.002511&amp;ie=UTF8&amp; >>>> 
t=k&amp;om=0&amp;s=AARTsJoDgjkshTj8cjPg >>>> 
CqSiCnGFWKk0jw&amp;ll=37.431319,-122. >>>> 
079391&amp;spn=0.020447,0.025749&amp;z= >>>> 
14&iwloc=addr&amp;output=embed">

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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl= >>>> 
en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+ >>>> 
Mountain+View,+CA&amp;sll=37.423674,-122.084775&amp; >>>> 
sspn=0.001018,0.002511&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=k&amp;om= >>>> 
0&amp;ll=37.431319,-122.079391&amp;spn=0.020447,0.0257 >>>> 
49&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;>>>> 
text-align:left">View Larger Map</a>

</small>

The good news here is the guys at Google coded all occurrences of & with &. A small, but nice news in my opinion.