kjfitz
10/12/05 07:29 PM
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Google recently changed the layout of the main map screen. The new maps are a bit smaller. There is however a way to hack the full screen map back into your URLs.
If your map contains a city and state or city and country that Google recognizes, then it will display the map in full mode rather than with the acres of white space off to the left.
Let's take this URL as our example:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-23.489462,-46.807326&spn=0.006413,0.007461&t=k&hl=en
Note how there is a lot of white space to the left?
Now let's add "Sao Paulo, Brazil" as the first arguement to the URL.
The rules for adding an arguement are:
(1) add the prefix "q="
(2) add the the suffix "&"
(3) convert all spaces to a "+".
So we add: q=Sao+Paulo,+Brazil& to the URL as the first argument after the ? to get:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sao+Paulo,+Brazil&ll=-23.489462,-46.807326&spn=0.006413,0.007461&t=k&hl=en
You may have to mess ith the zoom sometimes afterwards and you may have to hunt around for a city and state/country combination that Google recognizes but this seems to work quite often.
kjfitz
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romulusnr
10/12/05 08:02 PM
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It doesn't seem to matter if the place name used actually relates tches the viewed location, it just has to be one that Google Maps knows:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Boston&ll=-23.489462,-46.807326&spn=0.010769,0.023320&t=k&hl=en
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