Google Apps Hacks

305  - PLOT GOOGLE CALENDAR EVENTS ON A GOOGLE MAP

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But what if you’d rather have both context menus—sometimes one, sometimes the other,

depending on the specic circumstances and your task at hand? Take a look at Figure 11-34, which

shows what happens when you congure Firefox to disallow web sites to hide the Firefox context

menu, and then right-click Google Maps. If you look closely, you will notice that the Maps context

menu is still there, albeit almost completely hidden. So how can you force the browser context menu

to show but still sometimes hide it to see what’s behind? The answer: press Escape after right-

clicking the page. This will make the browser context menu disappear, but still leave the web app’s

context menu open.

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If you maintain a public events list using Google Calendar, you

can create a version of the calendar’s XML feed that will plot your

events on a Google Map or in Google Earth.

One way of getting a series of events displayed on a Google Map is to create a Google My Map

 containing a separate marker for each event. This hack shows you the other way: pulling

the events into the map from Google Calendar.

Using a Google Calendar to declare the events that you want to map has the advantage that you can

view events by date, using a Google Calendar view, embedded as a calendar or list ...