Create a Google Wedding Map


Create Free Google Wedding & Event Maps













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You can easily create a free wedding map or any custom Google Maps in minutes using the free Google Maps. The advantages to this are you have full control over creating the map that is clickable with your links and photos. Also, it is associated with your Google account and not some commercial third party host that will mine and sell any information you give them.

To create a Google Maps Wedding or Locator Map you need to do the following:

1. Log into your Google account and go to Google Maps (maps.google.com). If you don't have a Google account you can easily create a Google email account for free.
2. Next, click the "My Maps" link in the upper left of the window of maps.google.com.
3. Next, click the "Create new map" link in the upper left. You can make your map using their symbols and your text, or link to any pictures, symbols, and movies. Google Maps has way more freedom in making the kind of map you want. You can add wedding map locations like hotels, reception locations, points of interest, houses, good restaurants, good shopping locations, ATMs, and any thing else that needs to be on the map for the wedding.
4. Next save it as a private map in the upper left. Click the link button and copy the link path information in the upper right. Next, open a browser window and paste and test the link. It is a good idea to mail the link to yourself so you have it on hand for copying and mailing to wedding guests.

5. The nice thing about having this on your Google account is it won't be shared with the public if you don't want it to be. On other wedding map creation sites people can look up your personal map by accident using last name searches. Why have a company help you make a Goggle Map, when you can cut them out of the picture and use Google Maps just like they do! DON’T give out personal information that you don’t have to. Once they have your personal email address you will be bombard with they’re wedding ads and flyers for their services. Read the fine print.

6. You can easily add and change information on the map as the wedding gets closer. Also, using your Google account keeps your name from being added to a wedding mailing list. With the map on your Google account, you can totally control your personal family information and the site permissions(public, private).

7. Your free Google wedding map can be embedded/linked on the wedding site if you have one, or emailed to the guests, or posted on a Myspace or Facebook account.

8. The best part is when you are done with the Google wedding map, you can easily delete it. Your personal information on the map is gone and you have not given out personal information while making the wedding map. Unlike third party sites that may backup and keep your map on the site as reference or as an example.

9. If you don't like the simple Google default makers that Google Maps uses, you can use other sets that have church and other wedding symbols. Simply link to the symbol path when you add the marker on your new map. There are a lot of symbols you can link to and use in the wedding map. Here are some sites that have symbols you can link to -
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/geicons.htm
http://www.visual-case.it/cgi-bin/vc/GMapsIcons.pl
Click on the symbol and open it in a new window to show the symbol and path. You can also just click on the symbol marker and do a copy path and than paste the path.

If you want to get really creative you can make your own custom wedding map icon markers to put on your site and use, here are good instructions on how to do it -
http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/custom-map-symbols-in-google-maps/


Printed Invitation Wedding & Event Maps You Make

If you have Adobe Illustrator or another drawing program you can make your own wedding map to be included with the invitations. Many people still consider it proper to send a nice vellum printed wedding map with instructions and locations on the wedding map. These are handy for someone driving who needs the written information in front of them.

Many sites on the web sell full blown city illustrator maps for very expensive prices of 300-600 dollars. Some sites have less expensive editable blank maps which can be customized and thinned down to show just the streets and wedding location with your directions and street text. Here is a site with affordable blank illustrator city maps of most of the U.S. major cities. These maps can be cropped, copied and pasted, or cropped in a page layout program to get the size and insets you want on the final map. A important thing to remember is simple drawn maps with less streets and just a few symbols and text on them are a lot cleaner looking than a map with every street on it. If you draw a wedding map keep it simple. It does not have to be to scale and have every street and landmark on it. The cleaner the wedding map, the better.

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