Google Maps and Directions to Your Business
Overview of this week's e-Newsletter
Did you know that with Google Maps you can can offer directions and a map to your place of business completely on your website? This week I'm going to go over what Google Maps has to offer in the form of directions to your visitors.

What is Google Maps?
Overview of what Google Maps is.
Google Maps is a free web-based mapping application that can be used for more than just showing an interactive map. This mapping service actually powers many third-party map application through the Internet. With Google Maps a developer can create some amazing applications. To check out some of those applications visit the following websites. maps.google.com
weather map (weatherbonk.com) 
cell phone signal map (signalmap.com)

View Our Map and Directions Demo
View our demo of the Google Map and Driving Directions application we built.
As a special feature this week I have created a demo page where you can view a demonstration a Google Map and driving direction that where created and placed on our own web page. Click here to view this demo.

How to get Google Maps and Directions...
on Your Website?
How you can have Google Maps and directions on your website.
Because Google Maps is a free web-based embeddable map application. It can easily be place/embedded into any website. Natively, as part of Google Map's pre-created functions, Google Map includes the ability to generate and display driving directions. All that's required is a web designer/developer to get these codes from the Google Maps developer website and format it to your location presto you've got a map and driving directions on your website.

Whats so unique about this is that there is no need to have your website visitors navigate away from your website in order to view the map or directions. Everything is done seamlessly on your own website.

And therefore it's a great feature to offer your visitors if your business requires customers, patients, or clients to travel to your location. Now instead of having to give directions to people over the phone, ect... you can refer them to your website and know they will get exact correct directions with a map.

Final Words
Ending comments
Well that's it for this week's newsletter. I hope that you now have a greater understanding of what Google Maps is and how you can use it on your website. And as always, look for next week's newsletter where we hope to provide you with more useful tips and advice. If you have any suggestions about topics you would like to hear more about please send us an email with your thoughts.