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As what the geolatlong blog has shared, you have been in this kind of situation pretty too often, you invited a friend to you house or a meeting place and he asked for directions, you find it hard to show him the direction in word it would be much easier to describe it visually, tah dah and there was my maps by google, you can access my maps this after you have logged into maps.google.com, it just on the left side a link that says My Maps.

My initial reaction pretty cool and its all I really wanted, to be able to draw a sketch on the map and share it with your frineds or the whole world, I will take some time making your first map it tricky, from making lines to sharing it, new users will feel pain at the first 5 mins, where to draw, where to create, how do i share this?.

Ok another bold comment the url though the google maps url (even if its long and looks like garbage) is very important it details the long lat, zoom and settings of the map you wanna share. To be honest it looks like garbage when you paste in on chat and even on twitter, Ahmm hello web 2.0 is clean url’s right. overall a good use especially for travellers.

To see more hightlights of the my maps from google maps go here

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/04/save-and-share-directions-with-my-maps.html

Now you can use your favorite php functions like explode or md5 and etc on javascript, pretty cool and the js file is not that big, tip if your using jquery already better maximize your jquery functions (it’s fast), if you want to accomplish something that jquery cannot do  then its time to include phpjs.

http://phpjs.org/

If you want a quick reference for free downloads of icons in ico, png or psd icofree is for you
http://www.icofree.com/

avoid the hassles of googling, have a headstart and get things done