If you’re a restaurant owner, or a realtor, or someone who simply wants to have a website showing people where they can find you, Google used to offer this neat feature whereby you could embed a Google Map with a pin point on your site. When the new look and feel of Google Maps rolled out earlier this summer, that feature disappeared, but now it’s back according to TechCrunch.
How do you embed a map? It’s easy. Just go to Google Maps, find the place you want to embed, hit the embed button, copy and paste the HTML code, and you’re good to go. Personally, I’ve opted out of using the new Google Maps because I don’t like the layout, the font rendering, and the colors, so I don’t have this option available yet on my account. Knowing how Google works, however, they’ll eventually shove the new Maps UI down my throat.
How does this relate to Android? Right now when you Google an address, said address will get pushed to your Android phone via Google Now. But what happens if you visit a website with an address? Chrome isn’t yet creepy enough to push that address down to your phone, but if the Google Maps API is called, and your logged into Chrome, you can imagine that said location information can be shared somehow.
Why is Google being so generous with their free services? So they can show you where the nearest Starbucks and McDonald’s are, because if they do that, then they get paid, and you get to keep on using your 10 GB of free web mail.
