SORRY - that's not it…i get the same for my URL, which works though.

Here's the actual problem. Both of you tried to edit the description of the map, where the link is. Chris inserted "Morgawr…" and Lobo_Gris inserterd some other name. The way you inserted that broke the original link in half.

this in turn broke the regular expressions that the wikidot validates these links (I'm assuming they use that).

anyways, if you fix that link , you should be fine. for instance this works fine (it's one of the two above) - note the a href tag which now looks different.

[[embed]]
<iframe width="600" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106834310040442095266.0004658f85e258cb011b4&amp;ll=19.569495,-99.118996&amp;spn=0.161745,0.205994&amp;z=12&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106834310040442095266.0004658f85e258cb011b4&amp;ll=19.569495,-99.118996&amp;spn=0.161745,0.205994&amp;z=12&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Nuevo Depa in a larger map</a></small>
[[/embed]]

Have changed the code to

<iframe width="600" height="400" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=100685272538302717572.00046f39b9745fec203a9&amp;ll=50.212064,-5.092163&amp;spn=1.462399,3.499146&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=100685272538302717572.00046f39b9745fec203a9&amp;ll=50.212064,-5.092163&amp;spn=1.462399,3.499146&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View the Morgawr Sightings in a larger map</a></small>

but still says 'no match for embedded code'. As far as I can tell GoogleMaps must have generated the break in the first place.

The coding is on the page at http://fortean.wikidot.com/morgawr#toc1 if anybody wants to help trying to fix it. The page is open edit.

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." ~ André Gide

fixed it. your problem was using maps.google.co.uk instead of maps.google.com - it works now.

Excellent. Many thanks FunChief. Very much appreciated. Looks great now.

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." ~ André Gide

Can you insert here under "code" block the requested code of google ?

could be you need a private / secret password to embed this?

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My code is this one:

[[embed]]
<iframe width="600" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106834310040442095266.0004658f85e258cb011b4&amp;ll=19.569495,-99.118996&amp;spn=0.161745,0.205994&amp;z=12&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106834310040442095266.0004658f85e258cb011b4&amp;ll=19.569495,-99.118996&amp;spn=0.161745,0.205994&amp;z=12&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Nuevo Depa</a> in a larger map</small>
[[/embed]]

It is a private map, but as far as I know you do not need a password to be able to watch the map.

You have too much code after the end of the iframe block!
( </iframe>)

Have a look at this page under "More Action to demonstrate"
(it is not your code)

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When i try your map (the src attribute of the iframe) I get some sort of an error: {errorText:"Unable to contact server."}. just paste your URL into the browser, for instance: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106834310040442095266.0004658f85e258cb011b4&amp;ll=19.569495,-99.118996&amp;spn=0.161745,0.205994&amp;z=12&amp;output=embed

Why exactly this hapens i don't know.

sorry - my mistake, see resolution in a thread below

How can you edit the placemarks in mymaps? I cannot change anything. I found a post in the "how to" section about a "edit button", but I don't have anything like that..
And how do you import placemark icons? It only accepts kml-url's..

• you need a google account (any account created with google service it's fine: gmail, picasa, google docs, etc)
• login in google
• go to maps.google.com
• click on "my maps" on the left just below the google map logo
• past the kml link in the searchbox
• when your kml file is displayed on the map, click on "save in my map" (at the top of the left sidebar, just belove the previous mentioned "my maps" link)
• now you should have the new map listed on the left side bar
• if the map is not selected, select it.
• now you should see an "edit" option just below the list of your maps (I suppose you will have only the new one just created) and just before the list of all the placemarks of the map
• after clicking on "edit", every time you select a placemarks (from the list or from the map) you will see a windows where you can modify text end appearance of each placemark.

At this point should be quite easy to find where to change the icons and where to upload new one.
As I wrote in the previous post, you can't edit placemarks in bulk, but you have to editing one by one.
Hope everything was clear. All the words I put between "" are translate by me looking at my italian version, so maybe instead of "edit" you should find "modify" and so on.
Let me know if you find problems

PS: I forgot to mention that I'm not sure you need a google account or you can do the same even without login, but if you want to save the map for future editing, an account is much better.

- Randagio

thank you for this detailed description.
it works all fine unto the edit-button. i don't have it.
what seems to be the problem ist that over my mymap-list, the title says "created by others" and therefore I am not allowed to edit. because I tried to create a new map and with this one the edit-button appeared.
well, I'll search on in the google map group. I'll tell you when I find some answers..
thanks for your help!

ok, then try with this:

• save the kml file on your pc
• go to my map
• click on "create new map" (top left corner of the leftsidebar)
• click on "import" (should appear just below the list of your maps)
• choose your kml file in the new window

At this point google should definitely recognized the map as created by you

- Randagio

right, thanks! I didn't see this option.
unfortunately it doesn't work as it says "We could not finish uploading your file.". I don't think it's the size of the file as I also tried it with only one point. but is it possible that my firewall blocks it from uploading??

Edit: just seen on a german forum that the first line (upload from computer) doesn't seem to work at the moment, only the second line wit the url. worked fine.

thank you for your great help anyway!

Thanks for the info, it makes something clear !

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… But you are right, I'll modify the page to explain this a bit better. In a first time I fought this was note necessary as wasn't concerning codeing in wikidot, but something in google maps.

- Randagio