I’ve been playing around with Google My Maps ever since they were released and I’m still having trouble using embedded videos.
At first I thought that I somehow had to ask Google to whitelist Viddler as a video provider. But since then I’ve tried random YouTube videos to test and I have even had trouble getting those to show up.
According to the FAQ Google “recommends” using “YouTube or Google Video”. It doesn’t necessarily say that you can not use any other services, but for the one’s I’ve tried I’ve not been able to get them to work.
My method for trying to add videos to My Maps is this:
- Place placemark on map.
- Copy HTML embed code from any video service.
- Paste into HTML editing view on My Maps.
- Save.
However, it is easy to be fooled because everything works up until step 4. Until you actually save the map, your videos will appear just fine. Once you save, the HTML embed gets “ripped” out.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to 1) get embeds to work? 2) get Viddler whitelisted for My Maps? I would really like to finish my Viddler @ SXSW Google Map.
[tags]google, maps, my maps, video, viddler, youtube, html, embed[/tags]
[slug]mymaps-embed[/slug]
I can help you with 1), but not 2)
Use the sample code from their FAQs, saving that works
But Google is definitely stripping the others, I tried using the same code (both YouTube and Google Video versions) pointing to URLs from Viddler, Vimeo and a few others and it gets stripped. So it is not the embed code, but what you’re embedding
Looks like you need to arrange 2), stat. But I’m afraid I can’t help you there!
Lachlan: I tried something similar, with the same result. I am not sure why they’d block other services without the proper documentation on how to request inclusion. Funny thing is, when I was testing the Google and YouTube HTML embed codes (from the sites, not from the FAQ) wasn’t even working properly.
Perhaps it is still very buggy so until they work out everything, they may be blocking everyone. Google, respond? You’ve gotta be reading this.