Is it ok with Google to take a screen shot of a map and post it on a website to show people where the business is located?
Or, would it be better to use whatever code to embed an active Google map?
Anybody know what code is used to embed a map like this?
Google also provides static maps (i.e. a simple image).
Google handles the traffic, and you don’t violate any copyright stuff. Win-win!
Thats interesting Raffles as I did not know you could do that.
I see alot of websites using interactive maps that are embedded into a webpage. How do you do that?
I’d rather use an interactive map, and since there’s so many sites doing this, surely this isn’t copyright violation, is it?
No of course not. And it’s so easy to find on google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=google+maps+embed
The first link is Google’s documentation, and there are lots of websites out there that will create the code for you and do other nice things. Just look at the results below the top one.
Well, I tried to get the code and it said I had to sign up for a Google account…and they want my phone number…which I’m un-willing to give to them for obvious reasons.
Any other way to embed maps into a webpage?
[FONT=“Georgia”]Paranoia?
Just use 000-0000 for your phone number.
You can get the code to embed a map without being logged in too, by the way. The only downside is you wouldn’t be able to place a pointer.
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They want to send me a confirmation code through my phone to activate my account, so I can’t use all zeros.
It’s none of their business what my phone number is. I get enough sales calls already and I don’t need more as they will sell my phone number to marketing companies and I’ll start getting even more calls from people trying to sell me stuff.
And, I think I found a good work around at http://www.Map-Generator.net
[FONT=“Georgia”]Wow, that’s so strange. I wouldn’t have given out my e-mail when I signed up for a Google account. Maybe it’s a new rule.
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I’ve got a couple of rarely used Yahoo accounts I could have used if they just wanted an email address. No problem. But, my cell phone number? I don’t think I want to hand that out, so I’m not signing up for this service.
If you don’t enjoy your right to privacy, then give them all your contact info, phone number and address and let them post it all over the internet and/or sell that information to marketing companies or out on the black market for identity thieves.
I choose to release my personal info on a need-to-know-basis, and Google doesn’t need to know. This has nothing to do with paranoia. It has to do with my personal information is none of their business.
Think of CVs, why don’t you 
Business contact info.
But you’re right, tel# not OK for that service.
I don’t know what “CVs” are, so I couldn’t comment on this.
CV = Curriculum Vitae = Resume. A place for all your personal info, including contact info.
Yeah, I remember back in the day when they called a resume…a resume!
That information is also given out on a need-to-know-basis, and the whole world does not need to have that information and it’s not going to be posted freely to the internet.
If I were to apply for a job and that company posted my resume to the web…my attorneys and I will make a nice payday off of that.
It’s the kinda case hungry lawyers eat up!
Since you’re getting so “technical” I suppose you mean a Résumé. Which is a French word. And it’s the Curriculum Vitae for the lazy. Transformed in a more lazy Resume. Which can be mistaken for carry on, proceed 
Since Latin is older than French I suppose you should be remembering CV?
But you never posted your CV on-line hoping to get hired? You never posted personal tel# on-line for business purposes?
I believe this is the kind information you want to be posted freely on the internet, rather than in exchange for a fee, right?
But, as I’ve said, when they ask for your number w/o a reson, it’s time for you and your attorneys to go to lunch
No, I’m only supposed to remember what I was taught and resume is it.
Not interested in all the other mumbo jumbo.
No, I would not want my resume posted to the internet since that’s quite alot of info being made available to identity thieves. Why make it extra easy for criminals when it’s not necessary?
Submitting a resume to a company for employment is covered under Federal Privacy laws here in the US where you can sue the crap out of them if they fail to protect that information and it is compromised.
Sharing personal information is getting to be a serious thing that should be protected, so to answer your question…no, I have never posted my resume on the internet.
However, I do have several toll-free phone numbers that I do post freely on the net so people can call me up and give me some money in exchange for goods and service…and that’s different than posting your personal phone number.
Someone asking you for your phone number is not a case to take to court.
(You might want to go back and re-read what I said)
You might not want to be involved with the web, or marketing, or people, or…anything then.
CV is both older and much more widely used.
I learned resume as well; CV is just shorter, easier to say and more common.
When did you stop learning?
You’re confusing what social media: facebook, twitter, can do to you with what web media can do for you.
This means you never looked for a job before.
No thanks, I’m good
I have just looked at google and there is no mention of a phone number required when signing up.
When I request a google maps key it just asks for the website address.
I didn’t go throught the whole process as I already have an account and a couple of google map keys.
Are you going to the correct pages ?
It’s none of their business what my phone number is. I get enough sales calls already and I don’t need more as they will sell my phone number to marketing companies and I’ll start getting even more calls from people trying to sell me stuff.
What is to stop other people giving them your details? I seem to remember people giving out their own details for a free gift - do you trust everybody 100% who you have given your phone number to ?
Yes, and sometimes you just cannot control every aspect of life.
All I’m saying is why would I want to make it easy for my information to go out to organizations that have no business having it in the first place?
Look, I think you guys are reading too much into what I’m saying…All I’m saying is that yes I’ll give my contact info to an organization if it’s for a job or for some other important situation that I decide warrants giving my info out to.
That’s the key thing here…what I decide…
It’s my contact info, therefore I’ll decide when to give it out and when to not give it out. When it comes to Google…I will always decide to not give it out.
Google will do anything to make a buck and I don’t believe the future of this company is going to be filled with honesty and integrity in doing what’s good for people…they’re only going to do what’s good for them and those that pay them alot of money…the people be damned.
I do not have an account with Google and was in the process of setting one up so I can use their map system to embed on a client’s contact us page to give visitors a general idea of where they are located.
That’s when they showed a page asking for a phone number so they could send verification to my phone. No other options were available for this confirmation number, so that’s where I got off at.
I’m not applying for a job at Google and there’s no reason that I’m in agreement with for them to have my phone number in the first place, so I’ll just have to see if I can possibly figure out a way to get through life without having a Google account. 
I know it’s going to be really tough, but there has been many people that have lived good lives without having a Google account, so I do have hope that I can somehow get by.
As for as phone numbers are concerned, I frequently give a false phone number on purpose when shopping locally if they insist on putting my phone number into their computer for “warranty purposes” or whatever excuse they are using.
I just change the last digit of my phone number to the next lower digit so I can remember it and still not get any calls from people trying to sell me stuff.
These big companies lie themselves all the time so unless I’m trying to go to work for one of them, it’s none of their business what my name is much less any other contact info is…and if they insist, I’ll be happy to provide some mis-information for them to put in to their computer.
Never under estimate the power of mis-information! 