REMINDER: B.A.D. meeting for January: Wed 1/10/2007: 730pm-? at Quinn's Lighthouse

[Tony Godshall]

Thanks for the improved URL and lesson.

I'll be wearing a green Debian Premium Distro T-shirt.

On 1/10/07, Holt Sorenson <hso at nosneros.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:31:50PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
>  > Hi folks...
>  >
>  > Would be nice if I had an idea how many to hold a table for...
>  >
>  > See ya tomorrow?
>
> The google maps url format is fairly straight forward:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s
>
> %s == the string you want to map in url encoding. Note,
> this is great for using with firefox keyword bookmarks.
>
> Since Quinn's Lighthouse is at:
> 1951 Embarcadero, 94606
>
> The URL w/ space converted to %20 would be:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1951%20Embarcadero,%2094606
>
> You can add a label by adding a string enclosed in parentheses.
> So our Quinn's Lighthouse URL becomes:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1951%20Embarcadero,%2094606%20%28Quinns%20Lighthouse%29
>
> If we want to loose eight characters, we can shorten it a bit:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1951%20Embarcadero,94606%28Quinns_Lighthouse%29
>
> And all this w/o a maps api key. Yay! A maps url in 77 chars!  Fun, fun, fun!
>
> Regards,
> Holt
>
>


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