Personalizing Google Maps to Illustrate Amenities

Google allows users to create and embed maps into your own website.  Using Google Maps is a great way to illustrate the many amenities in a neighborhood.

You can add customized icons with photos and link them to websites.  For instance when marketing a home all the external features can be added to a map, then the map code can be embedded on the brochure page you create on your site.

Tutorials in Screencast

To illustrate this process I’ve made 3 screencasts with step by step instructions on how to create, customize and embed Google maps onto your website.

How to create a personalized Google Map –Where to Begin?

Adding customized icons to your Google Map – Step by step, how to find icons and add them to your Map

Embedding your Google Map into your Blogsite –

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