With
Google Maps EZ, you can embed a marked

map with ease and include links, text and images (all via HTML) in the
captions associated with each marker (via).

EXTENT

A

B

We
started out in right field,
but as the sun set, it was too
much to bear. Couldn’t
see into the sun. So we switched seats.
Not like it was a
packed stadium that night.
Here’s the perspective from our first
seats at around 6:30 p.m.

C

D

When I first tried it out earlier today, I was having trouble with the EXTENT
definitions.  With EXTENT, you can establish the scale and map type
(hybrid, map or satellite), thereby giving the map a stable look. 
The fancy dropcaps feature that I added to the blog a few weeks ago were interfering with the
"E"–grabbing it away from "XTENT" and clouding up the whole process.  With
that resolved, I’ve tried to push just a bit farther to mark the photographed
spaces at a Syracuse Sky Chiefs game in late July (could be anything though). 
Basically, I wanted to integrate the Flickr image sources for the thumbnail
views with links to the larger versions of the photos.  Click on the each of the markers to see what I mean. You can navigate the map with the control buttons, too. In concept, it’s similar to geo-tagging in Flickr, except that it’s localized, speedier and needs
only to work with the images you involve.  I haven’t had much success with
geo-tagging, actually; even after I’ve tagged photos, they only sporadically
cycle into Mappr, and the KML bit with Google Earth doesn’t notice them after a
week.  Always possible that I’m doing something wrong, of course. 

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