Add a Web Integration Link for Aerial Photos
Apr 7, 2005
About a month ago there
was a post on how to create a Web Link for Google Maps.
If you haven't set this up already, Google just provided one more compelling
reason to do so. Earlier this week, they quietly introduced a new satellite
feature that allows you to get an aerial photo snapshot for any address in the United States.
Obviously if you’re in
the commercial real-estate business this is an extremely valuable tool, but
even if you’re stuck in an office doing telesales, it provides great context
when talking with prospects. Using a web integration link in Salesforce it’s
just one click to bring up the satellite photo like the one above.
Here's a WIL that works on contacts:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q={!Contact_MailingAddress}%20{!Contact_MailingCity}%20{!Contact_MailingState}%20{!Contact_MailingPostalCode}
Here's one from Matt Browning that gives directions from the user’s address to
the contact’s address.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from%20{!User_Address}%20{!User_City}%20{!User_State}%20{!User_PostalCode}%20to%20{!Contact_MailingAddress}%20{!Contact_MailingCity}%20{!Contact_MailingState}%20{!Contact_MailingPostalCode}
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Actually, you can link directly to the satellite picture by adding some switches in the WIL:
Just add &t=k&hl=en at the end of the link, and voilà! you are redirected directly to the keyhole view.
Posted by: Yvan Poulin | April 07, 2005 at 12:16 PM
Any way that this can be extended to Europe, the UK in particular?
Posted by: Peter | April 15, 2005 at 01:15 AM
Unfortunately, I think that Google only supports NA at this point.
Posted by: Yvan Poulin | April 19, 2005 at 11:06 AM
The link for the directions from the user’s address to the contact’s address gives me the following error:
Error: Invalid Data.
Review all error messages below to correct your data.
Posted by: Dan Norman | July 04, 2005 at 06:50 AM
The following link works to resolve the issue I had with "Invalid Data".
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr={!User_FullAddress}&daddr={!Contact_FullMailingAddress}&hl=en
Posted by: Dan Norman | July 04, 2005 at 07:37 AM
I found a much more concise url for the contacts custom link is;
http://maps.google.com/maps?q={!Contact_FullMailingAddress}
For accounts;
http://maps.google.com/maps?q={!Account_FullBillingAddress}
and for leads;
http://maps.google.com/maps?q={!Lead_Street}%20{!Lead_City}%20{!Lead_State}%20{!Lead_PostalCode}
Also, 800x600 pixels is a good pop-up window size.
Posted by: Eric Santiago | August 29, 2005 at 04:32 PM