Planning vacation sights with Google Maps
Since I had never been to Chicago, I thought it would be a good idea to mark all the sights Rick and I wanted to see on one Google Map.
We started by locating our vacation rental and saving it to a Google “My Map” called Chicago Trip, marking it with a red marker and naming it Homebase. Then we listed all the sights we wanted to see: Field Museum, Planetarium, Art Institute, Sears Tower, etc. We googled each place, looked up its address on Google Maps, and then saved each location to our Chicago Trip map with blue markers. We also saved other types of locations like family to visit and places to eat, marking those with their own icons. Finally, we could look at the map and group sights to see by location.
Google allows you to share your maps with other people and set permissions as to whether they can edit or not. You can view our Chicago Trip Google Map here.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I did the same thing with my trip, but I didn’t really have sights on my map, but instead different restaurants that I wanted to try (I was up there for a class and only had nights free)
The my map tool is pretty handy.