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If you have a blog or a website, you might want to embed a map that shows a place you’ve visited, or displays your business address next to your contact details. Google Maps makes this very easy. Go to maps.google.com and use the controls to zoom into the map you want to display. Click the gear icon in the bottom-right corner and select Share or embed map. Select the Embed tab and choose a map size small, medium, large or custom. The preview shows what it will look like on your website or blog. Click inside the code box and press Ctrl+A to highlight the whole thing, then Ctrl+C to copy it. Now switch to your web-page editor, find the place in the HTML code where you want the map to appear and press Ctrl+V to paste in the map code. Some blog editors also allow you to paste in HTML code. Bing maps offers the same tool:

select the map view at www.bing.com/maps, click the Share button and click the box below ‘Embed in a Web Page’. Press Ctrl+A to select the code, Ctrl+C to copy it, then switch to your web-page editor and press Ctrl+V to paste it in.