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Google Maps - Do Not Try This at Home!

Tom Allensworth
in Hangar Chat

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Bill, I have taken your URL and tried an alternative approach. If you directly paste the URL to the message and it does not work, click on the BBCode icon in the editor control panel above the message area, and click on the MEDIA BBCode. Then paste the map URL into the block provided. That will work most times, I think.

 

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=KGYY&hl=en&ll=41.620704,-87.410874&spn=0.016041,0.033689&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=34.596091,68.994141&t=h&hq=KGYY&z=15

Test:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Randolph+AFB,+TX&hl=en&ll=29.531645,-98.276782&spn=0.024644,0.049567&sll=31.168934,-100.076842&sspn=12.393532,25.378418&oq=Ran&hnear=Randolph+AFB,+Bexar,+Texas&t=h&z=15

 

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[url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=KGYY&hl=en&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=34.596091,68.994141&t=h&hq=KGYY&ie=UTF8&ll=41.620704,-87.410874&spn=0.009625,0.012875&z=15&iwloc=A&source=embed

 

Bill, you have to make sure that the Code / Text switch is in the BBCode position. That's the small switch in the top left corner of the editor above. If you don't do that, then all you will see is what appears to be a regular URL entry.

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Bill, you have to make sure that the Code / Text switch is in the BBCode position. That's the small switch in the top left corner of the editor above. If you don't do that, then all you will see is what appears to be a regular URL entry.

Yes. I always use the BBCode position (unless for some unknown reason the forum software decides to switch to Text all by itself). I was also trying to see if the "customize" function would work (for a smaller image), but obviously it did not work...

 

...nor did trying to eliminate the darn "baloon" that covers so much of the image. :blush:

 

This is what should have been embedded:

<iframe width="200" height="200" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=KGYY&hl=en&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=34.596091,68.994141&t=h&hq=KGYY&ie=UTF8&ll=41.620704,-87.410874&spn=0.006416,0.00854&z=15&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=KGYY&hl=en&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=34.596091,68.994141&t=h&hq=KGYY&ie=UTF8&ll=41.620704,-87.410874&spn=0.006416,0.00854&z=15&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

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