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Tamarah HendersonNow, let’s see how to create a shared Google Map where each of the team
members can locate himself.
Set up a collaborative
Google map
Go to
Google
Maps
and sign in.
Click ‘My Maps‘ on the upper left side of
the page.
Just below ‘My Maps‘, click ‘Create new map‘.
Add the title and the description of the map, and choose whether it should be
Public (shared with everyone and will be published in search results and user
profiles) or Unlisted (shared only with selected people who have its URL).
Still in the same screen, above the ‘Title‘ filed click
‘Collaborate‘.
Fill in the mail address of your team members and set their permissions (you
can allow collaborators to invite others and allow anyone to edit the map).
Finally, add a message explaining the team members what this map is all about
and how to add themselves to it.
Use these pre-made instructions!
To make the process easier, I’ve created generic instructions for you to use
in the last part,
where
you
explain to the team members about the
map.
Copy the section below,
customize the part surrounded
by
angle brackets and paste it into the message box
(shown in the
6th step above).
I’ve created a custom Google map for all of us to put our location on. Please
click the above URL and follow these steps to add yourself to the map:
Use the search box to locate your city, state, and country.
On the marker that appears, you’ll see a link that says
’Save to
My
Maps‘
within the bubble.
Click the link and select the
<write here the name of the
shared map>
.
Put your name as the title for the marker, and within the bubble provide
whatever info you’d like.
Share and embed
Once everybody has finished putting themselves
on the map, you can embed
it into a website or share it via
email
with people who are working
with the team. To get the embed
code or direct link to the map, click
‘Links‘ in the
upper
right side of the map.
Thanks to
Jorge Sierra -
Maggie VersterNow you can get your learners to create a map!
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Gary BertoiaGoogle Maps Ideas
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Doug Peterson"Shared, collaborative Google Maps can help solve that issue and improve the perception of proximity by creating a visualization of all the team members’ location."
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Bob SmithMore than ever, the internet has enabled us to work in global and distributed teams. Whether as part of our jobs, voluntary ventures, or joint blogs, working with people around the world has become part of life for many of us. Sometimes, it is so easy tha
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