I just added google maps to my site, and it was much easier than I thought it would be. A while back, I tried to get google adsense, but found that you need content before they install it. Google maps is much easier, all they need is a website and directory where it’ll be used, and a google id. Here’s how to do it..
If you haven’t got a gmail account, go get one at http://gmail.com
Go to the google maps api page http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ and fill out the site and directory where you want to put maps. I put in http://nevan.net/maps/
You’ll get an api key which you can use in pages, and sample code, with a map centred on somewhere in America. Here’s what the code gives:
http://nevan.net/maps/map.html
In all, the whole thing only took 3 minutes. Next, it’s time to start learning how to change the maps.