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Google Map of ALA Midwinter Hotels

Posted on Monday, January 7th, 2008, at 11:12 pm, and filed under Meeting. Note: Hypertext links in the printed form of this document are marked with a superscript "L" plus a number. The number corresponds to the list of web addresses at the bottom of the document.

Here is a map of official conference hotels and a link to download the KML file into Google Earth.

ALA Midwinter 2008 Hotel KML Location file

I’m somewhat disappointed by the display of the KML file through the Google Maps API. The KML file contains <address> tags, which in the Google Earth desktop application appears to enable the “Directions From” and “Directions To” options. It is entirely possible that I’m missing something in the KML file — it was created by exporting a folder of placemarks from the Google Earth application. The raw KML file, suitable for importing into Google Earth, can be downloaded from the link under the map.

If you have any suggestions for improving the output, let me know.

2 Comments

  1. Pamela Fox | January 8, 2008 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

    You could log the desire to have “Directions links” as a feature
    request here: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list
    I don’t think every developer would want it, so it’d probably have
    to be enabled through an option.

  2. the jester | January 10, 2008 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

    Thanks, Pamela — I’ve submitted the request. It won’t help for the conference this weekend, but it would be useful (if Google adopts the suggestion) for similar maps at future meetings…

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