Add a Google Map to SharePoint
Adding a map to your SharePoint site provides value to those that look to your site for information. Use a map on your SharePoint site to:
- Show people where to meet for a project meeting.
- Identify the location of a client so everyone can get to where they should be.
- Identify and educate people about reference points near a building or property.
- Visually communicate the distance of one location to another.
The idea is to publish information a single time while benefiting from it multiple times. THAT is efficiency! This makes the information you enter on your site actionable and meaningful and, in the example of the use of a map and project documents, helps to provide the user with a context of the project. The use of an interactive map also addresses something else you should be thinking about when building your SharePoint sites….it helps to make the site visually interesting.
Author: Lee Reed
ThoughtBridge, Atlanta, GA
Lee Reed is an expert in collaboration and user adoption on the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform. His consulting with companies large and small throughout the East Coast has resulted in many successful collaboration environments and increased user adoption.
Lee is currently the Director of Business Process and SharePoint Education for Thoughtbridge, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused exclusively on the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform.
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There’s also a ready made web part on codeplex which not only displays a single point on a google map but will also use data from a list, allowing people to get directions between, for example, different company sites.
http://www.codeplex.com/googlemapswebpart
It is brilliant. Although I would say that because I know the author – its also worth mentioning that the author is also smart, funny and a really good dancer. And modest too.
Mike – Yep, that’s another way to do it. However, for those of us who don’t have the ability to deploy things on the server, the use of the CEWP is a pretty good alternative. — Mark
Hi:
I am getting a request to sign in to the proxy server when I try to view the video. Is this meor you?
Charlie Epes
That would be your network requesting that of you.
Yep Mark, realise that and like the CEWP method but I don’t often get chance to pimp my own webpart ;) Mike
any advice on how this or the googlemapswebpart from codeplex agrees/disagrees with the google maps api terms of service stating that it must be freely accessible to all end users? my MOSS is an intranet solution, so would using Lee’s option of an embedded iframe in cewp be OK since it’s not using the API?
I cannot view the presentation – I am asked for a username and password. I have an urgent requirement to embed a map within a sharepoint site that is updated from a list on the site containing Lat & long info. To make things a bit harder, I do not have admin rights to the server and am therefore restricted to CEWP and Sharepoint designer.
All help greatly appreciated.
Regards.
Andy
Andy – There is no authorization needed on our end for you to view the presentation. Check with your IT department to see if they are blocking content. — Mark
hi.. can someone please help me with an issue or at least point me in the right direction. this is what i need to do, i need to place my companies floor plan (which i have already) in Sharepoint, and in the map place printer icons, so that users can click on the printers and it will be installed on their pcs. Can someone please help me how to go about this. The help is greatly appreciated