June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 4, Mapping (on) the Web
#36 Shorten Online Map URLs
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Shorten Online Map URLs Hack #36
Slim down the bloated URLs generated by online map services to make life
easier when you send travel directions by email.
How many times has someone emailed you a link to some online travel
directions to their house or office, only to have the lengthy, gibberish-filled
URL break into two or more unusable pieces, which then need to be labori-
ously scooped back together and manually entered into your web browser
location bar? This is typically so treacherous an operation that the slightest
mistype will transform your desperately needed directions into so much dig-
ital garbage, a solemn po’-faced error page, or worse, directions to a place
you do not want to travel to.
Here’s a typical http://mapquest.com URL for O’Reilly Media’s global head-
quarters in Sebastopol, California:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=US&addtohistory
=&searchtab=address&searchtype=address&address=1005+Gravenstein+Hwy+N&city=S
ebastopol&state=CA&zipcode=95472&search=++Search++
Worse, here’s a link to MapQuest for driving directions from O’Reilly to the
White House in Washington, DC:
http//www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&1ex=1&2ex=1&src=maps&
ct=NA&1a=1005%20Gravenstein%20Hwy%20N&1c=Sebastopol&1s=CA&1z=95472%2d2811&1y
=US&1pn=&1l=2YcHLejezMA%3d&1g=4Et9yZWt5s38n17Vi4Ympw%3d%3d&1v=ADDRESS&1pl=&2 ...
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