Short Story: Want a short link to a spot on google maps? Without a url-shortener service?
look it up at gmaps, get an about 200digit “link” from the upper right, throw away anything but http://maps.google.com/? the ll= and the z=-tags:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.662404,-73.972113&z=20
want a marker? Rightklick on a map and say “What’s here?”, get the link from upper right and do the same but with the q=-tag included:
http://maps.google.com/?q=40.662434,-73.972099&ll=40.662487,-73.972113&z=20
For that I made a small Autohotkey script to use with ac’tivAid.:
If you are Autohotkey-able you could easily add an own hotkey to the script.. but … ;]
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