Sharing Exact Locations

As a test, I added several 'Google Maps' links to my Facebook wall the other day. In the past, I had wondered about the best method for sharing views from Google Earth. It's possible to pinpoint marks which are then saved in a proprietary file format. If one of these files is emailed to a friend, then the program will open to the exact same screen. The problem is some people may not have loaded that program.

I can't imagine a valid reason not to load Google Earth. I love the ability to fly to various places we've walked on the earth. I use it to plan trips before going and to see where we were after returning home. I knew there was a program option to view the exact same Google Earth screen in 'Google Maps'. I discovered that provides an easy way to send off a link to others.


For example, you can click the screen shot above to show an old section of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico often refereed to as the Romantic Zone. After it appears, you may zoom and move the satellite image. We only had a one-day stop over in that city on a Mexican cruise last February. I am sure I've got more than one Flickr picture online taken from that jetty seen near the top of the captured image above.

Puerto Vallarta might be a great place for a vacation week next month.