Adding Rich Text or HTML Descriptions
By default the descriptions of your map items are in plain text. However, you can use rich text or HTML. To do this:
- Create or open a map.
- Click the appropriate placemark, line, shape. The info window appears.
- Click Edit.
- Choose Plain Text, Rich Text or Edit HTML.
- To edit rich text descriptions, select the text and use the icons above the description field:
- To use HTML descriptions, add HTML in the description field. Some HTML may be stripped from the description if it is considered unsafe or malicious.
- Click OK to save your changes.
Adding photos
You can add photos to your map, as long as they are hosted online. Please use a service such as Google PicasaWeb to put your photos online.
To add photos:
- Create or open a map.
- Click the appropriate placemark, line, shape. The info window appears.
- Click Edit.
- Choose Rich Text or Edit HTML.
- If you chose Rich Text mode, click the photo icon above the description field (the last one in the toolbar). Enter the URL of the photo you would like to add.
- If you chose Edit HTML mode, use the <img> tag to add photos. For example, <img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/images/maps_results_logo.gif" width=150 height=55> adds the Google Maps logo to your map with a width of 150 pixels and a height of 55 pixels.
- Click OK to save your changes.
Adding videos
You can add Google Video and YouTube videos to your map.
To add videos:
- Create or open a map.
- Click the appropriate placemark, line, or shape. The info window appears.
- Click Edit.
- Choose Edit HTML.
- Find the video you want on YouTube or Google Video. Copy the snippet of code that lets you embed the video into a website or blog.
- On Google Video, the snippet looks like this:
<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-274981837129821058&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>
- On YouTube, the snippet looks like:
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hKoB0MHVBvM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hKoB0MHVBvM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
- Paste the snippet of code into the description field of your placemark, line or shape.
- Click OK to save your changes.
Importing KML or GeoRSS to Your Map
Once you have created a map, you can import KML, KMZ or GeoRSS data into your map. To do this, create or open a map and click Import.
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