The 15 seconds method to add Google maps and satelite images to your web site and blog.

Google has announced that it now has made it easier for web sites to include Google maps on their web pages.

The method is simple, Google says:

“To embed a Google Map, users simply pull up the map they want to embed - it can be a location, a business, driving directions, or a My Map they have created - and then click “Link to this page” and copy & paste the HTML into their website or blog.”

Actually, it is even more advanced than this. You may also change the size of the map or image to make it fit to your web site template.

This is a great publicity stunt from Google’s site. We can imagine maps will be included in a large number of company sites, restaurant presentations, shop finders, travel guides and so on. They will all carry the Google brand.

The feature is available in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. It is available in the following languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Welsh, Faroese and Chinese (TW).

Faroese? Our Faroese friends will love the fact that they now are part of the big familiy of Google nations. The Faroe Islands is a small nation of some 50,000 Norse decendants situated north of Scotland. It is formally linked to Denmark, but the Faroese are fiercly independent in spirit!

Unfortunately the maps and sattelite images of Torshavn, the capital of the Islands, are incomplete, so we give you (1) a photo we have taken of the governmental district of Torshavn and (2) an image of the Pandia headquarters in Oslo.

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Thanks to Search Engine Roundtable.