Neat Google Maps Blog Header Integration.

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Reverend Dan Catt

I’m totally digging this variation by Michael on the 897 Blogger Template that puts a Google Map in the header.

Google Maps Blog Template Header

Michael travelled round New Zealand on a Harley Davidson Softail with an logging locations, photo’s and details, throwing the results onto his blog. The header is a great way to link them up and get an overview.

I’d like to see it taken a step further with mini maps for each blog post and maybe a KML file so we could see the whole journey on Google Earth.

Being geobloggers.com thought it was about time to actually link some geobloggers.

Filed under: geoblogging

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5 Responses to “Neat Google Maps Blog Header Integration.”

  1. byron, on February 10th, 2007 at 9:38 am Said:

    Thanks for linking to this. April 1st, I will be going on my first ’round the world trip and will be looking to do something like this. I heard you speak at SXSW last year, and you were blowing me away. I’ll be looking for you again this year.

  2. RevDanCatt, on February 10th, 2007 at 12:10 pm Said:

    Ah great, see you at SXSW again this year then! I’m just being bossy and incharge this year, with 4 other awesome people talking … but you’ll have a job keeping me quiet anyway.

    Should be posting about the whole SXSW thing this coming week.

  3. mike, on February 20th, 2007 at 9:31 am Said:

    thanks for the link.
    hope to be doing a polyline for the most police presence, most windy and windey roads etc. keep it interactive and add interest for my other site, lonelyplanetexchange.com.

  4. Andrew Turner, on February 26th, 2007 at 4:32 am Said:

    GeoPress (for WordPress) adds geotagging to your blog posts, and can output a map in your template (as a header), and the current dev version just added KML output from work by Barry at Nearby.org.uk.

    I definitely like the use of unique icons based on the post type. Would be interesting to mix-in any arbitrary GeoRSS/KML feed onto your map, so you can ‘mash’ your blog posts & Flickr images on a single map on your blog.

  5. High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » Mapping in Headers, on February 27th, 2007 at 7:31 am Said:

    [...] I finally have been catching up on my RSS feeds and saw that Dan Catt pointed out this nice example of a GoogleMap blog header. [...]

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