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Adding Images & IFrames to your Map Points

What are we talking about here?

So let’s say you have a map that depicts all of the countries you have visited.  It’s one thing to have a pin in France and show “Paris, 2008” in the pop up bubble, but it would be a heck of a lot cooler if you could click on that pin and see an image of you next to the Eifel Tower.

Alternatively, maybe you’re looking to provide some information about France to the person looking at the map.  The ability to integrate an IFrame into the pin pop up bubble makes it easy to show the user a fully functional website about French tourism when they click on the pin.

If you followed the couple tutorials that talked about hyperlinks, e-mail and Skype this should be a piece of cake…

 
What does it look like from a spreadsheet perspective?

Just like our last 2 tutorials, the key here is all in the way you enter data into your Google Spreadsheet.  Again, a bit of HTML is all you need.  

Take a look at the second column in the spreadsheet titled Image.  It contains the HTML required to place an image in your pin pop up bubble.

The third column (you will have to scroll right), titled IFrame, contains the HTML required to display an IFrame in your pin pop up bubble.  


Feel free to us the CONCATENATE function to make life easier if you want as explained in the a previous post (Adding Hyperlinks to Your Map Points).

The HTML, while a bit more complex than that needed to produce e-mail and Skype links, is still relatively self explanatory.  In both cases, all you are doing is providing the location of the Image/IFrame.  The IFrame requires some sizing – feel free to play with that to make it appear how you like it. 

You guessed it - from here, all you have to do is assign your fields in Step 2b of the map creation process and you're good to go.  If you have questions feel free to post to the help forum.


What does it look like from a map perspective?

As you might expect, we see the 2 pins plotted on the map below.  When you click on the pin in France you will see an image of the French flag (sorry, I didn’t have a picture of you next to the Eifel Tower).  

Okay, now try clicking on the other pin – which happens to be in Israel.  Give it a second because just like any web page it takes a second to load.  Cool, right – you actually see a website in the bubble with tourist info.



Your toolbox should be starting to fill up now…have fun with it,

--The Map Commissioner (E-mail)

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