Following a comment from Sally on the “My Quikmaps Lesson” post I thought I would quickly explain how to add images, video even Bubblr strips to a placemark.
- So you have made a new map and you have added a placemark > What next?
- Find an image stored somewhere online. For the images I used in my local history lesson I used our class Flickr account.
- Copy the location or url of the image – in Firefox you can just right click and “Copy Image Location”.
- Now navigate back to the placemark on your map. Make you have clicked on it to open up the balloon – and that the cursor is blinking at you in the space.
- If you just paste the address it will not display the image because you have not told the map to retrieve anything. So you need to add in a little code.
- All you need to do is ensure the URL is encoded with the highlighted parts in the example below.
(No spaces between the = and the url) - Now close the balloon and click SAVE IT (bottom right hand corner) When viewing the saved map if you click on the placemark it should open up with an image inside.
- When embedding video or other media – just look for the “Blog This” option, Gand paste the generated code straight into the placemark balloon. Google video can be added pretty easily in this way.
Hope this helps. Let me know how you get on. 🙂
Thank you! Was just about to step away from my computer when your message came through!!! Now I will have to stay and play a little longer!