Well, I haven't figured out how the Panoramio pix are done yet, but I
suspect it's similar to what I do for my project.
If you have or set up a google login - something you have to do to
receive email from any of the google groups, to get gmail, to save
map info like home so you can return to it and build travel
instructions etc. - if you then go to maps.google.com you will see a
link on the upper left called My Maps.
If you click on it, you will, of course, be told that you have no
maps. But there's a link to make some, and you can specify the name,
and choose how much of google maps you want to include.
Then you will find an Edit button on the left side bar of your chosen
map and if you click on it three buttons will appear on the map
section near the poorly designed zoom/rotate slider. One of those
buttons is a blue balloon/pin. If you click on that, you will find
the balloon attached to your cursor and you can drag the cursor to
the place where you wish to put the balloon. Then an info box
appears and you fill in the name of your balloon, and under it is a
place for text/whatever. Clicking on the Rich Text tab reveals the
standard text control items and a cute tiny picture button. Clicking
on that brings up a panel into which you place an html link to your
image.
Of course, since noone told you that you had to have your image
online somewhere to link it to the blue balloon, you then have to
figure out a way to upload your image somewhere and locate the url
for the image. This worked out for me, since I had already started
the gallery on Facebook. But I could have put it on my own site and
had a url to that instead, and of course, there a millions of other
possible places to put images on the web in this modern day and age.
Once you've got a url for your desired image, you then return to
google maps and insert the link in the little dialog box and poof!
the image appears in the info box for the balloon.
Then you click Save on the sidebar and Done to leave edit mode.
You can then click on the balloon and see the image, as well as any
text you put in there.
There are some caveats - the one most irritating to me right now is
that google adds balloons at the bottom of the list in the sidebar,
and I want the most recent balloon at the top. Google seems to think
that triple spacing is surely the most reasonable distance apart for
the titles of the balloons in the sidebar, so I have to scroll down
to the bottom to retrieve my most recent balloon and drag it up the
list. Of course google hasn't figured out how to allow me to drag it
up against the top of the list and have it automagically scroll, so I
have to drop the new balloon at the top, then scroll up further, then
pick up the balloon and drag it up the list to the new top, then
scroll up further etc.to get the new balloon at the top of the list.
Makes me appreciate Apple.
Anyway, that's how you do it.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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