This should apply to any skin that support comments and/or header.inc & footer.inc files, as these handle embedded HTML fairly well

Google Maps is a free Google service offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology, and accessed via a web browser.

Create a Google Maps link

Browse to Google Maps (ie [url=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=
]Google Maps UK[/url])
Search for location, set the zoom and mode settings as required
Click "Link to this Page"
Copy address from Address Bar
[url=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=kalkara&sll=
35.888424,14.527359&sspn=0.177457,0.291824&ie=
UTF8&ll=35.888476,14.52722&spn=0.002773,0.00456&t=
k&z=18&om=1]Google Maps Address[/url]

(Click to see its long form)

Use in comments etc

An album that explores these options can be seen at [url=http://mworthington.co.uk/jalbum/JAlbum%20Investigations/Chameleon%20&%20Geocoded%20Images/index.html
]A Chameleon Album to Explore Geocoded Images[/url]

For a more detailed discussion, focussed on the Chameleon skin, see GPS data & Links to Maps

Mark

Cool, Google rocks!
By adding

&output=kml&ge_fileext=.kml

at the end of the URL, Google Maps automatically creates a kml file which is downloaded and opened by Google Earth (if associated to kml files).
Really nice

Photo albums which integrate such a link would do the same thing when an user clicks on it: first connect to Google Maps to build a kml on the fly which is then downloaded by the browser and transfered to Google Earth.
It would be a bit faster when the kml is hosted directly within the photo album, so Google Maps wouldn't need to interact.

Message was edited by: kaya

The same can be done with http://www.flashearth.com