Install and setup Google maps plugin to embed
Google maps on Joomla 1.5
It's a wise idea that every website has a address location map on
it's website, for that reason Google maps is just great.
To install
Google maps capability to joomla one can use a
plugin called
Google Maps .
You can straighly
download
Joomla's Googlemap plugin from here
Afterwards use
Extension Manager to install the plugin e.g.
follow:
Extensions -&gr; Install/Uninstall (Choose
File)
and click on Upload File & Install button.
To further enable and configure the Joomla Googlemap plugin you
will have to go to the location:
Extensions -> Plugin Manager
Therein you will have to find and enable the Google Maps plugin
which is to be found in the column named Plugin Manager
On my Joomla installation the plugin was located in the second page
with modules, so if you don't find the module on the listing with
modules on the first page, make sure you scroll to the bottom of
the page and click on Next button.
Therein in the list you will most likely notice Google Maps
use the Enable button to enable it.
Next step is to configure the plugin, to do so press on the plugin
name Google Maps
All configuration necessery here is to place Googlemaps API Key in
the respective field (you will see it among config options).
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br /> Issuing a new Google Maps api key takes just few seconds,
if you already have a gmail account just go to
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html and take few
seconds to issue the key.
You will get the key right on your gmail account after being issued
(to repeat myself issuing takes few seconds so no worrier
here).
Once having the key place it in the Googlemaps API Key field
and configuring Address (which is one of the list of many options
the plugin provides) you will be done with configuration.
To display a google map the location you just configured go to the
Article Manager , select the article where you want the
google maps location picture of your address to appear and type in
the Article something like:
{mosmap|text='Exact street address
location'|zoom='15'|zoomType='Large'|zoomNew='0'}
After you saved the article a very nice Google map showing you the
location's streets will appear on your web page in the article link
where placed.
You can further conifgure a number of things related to the google
maps just embedded into joomla, one thing you might want to play
with is the zoom level. You see in below's code is equal to 15,
e.g. zoom='15'
Set it to another one if you want to regulate your googlemaps zoom
level.
For more thoroughful options take a look at the extensive plugin
documentation and play with the many settings