Analyst Toolbox

Link Your Addresses

Product: Google Maps

Whenever you are publishing a bulletin, sending an email, making a brochure, why not include a map? Consider these examples:

An invitation to a meeting: the address of the meeting location is formatted as a hyperlink. Clicking the address opens a map showing that location.

An intelligence bulletin: the offender's address is a hyperlink. Clicking the address opens a map showing an aerial photo of the location.

This is easy to do using Google Maps. Enter the address, get the map set up the way you like it, then look for the website address at the top of the page. Copy that and use it as the hyperlink in your document.

Author: Tom Casady
Updated 11/18/2009

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