Google today released a great new feature on their Google Maps site: My Maps. My Maps lets you annotate a Google map, and then share that map with others. For example, here’s a quick map of Wabash College that I created today, identifying the buildings on campus.

To get started, go to Google Maps, and click on the My Maps tab. You’ll need a free Google account to create and save your own maps, but if you already use Google Calendar or another Google service, your existing account will work with My Maps. You can learn more from the Google Maps User Guide, or this PC World article.

I see lots of potential uses of this technology at Wabash – a world map showing the location of Wabash students studying off campus, maps documenting immersion trips, maps showing locations of Monon Bell telecasts or WABASH day sites, maps showing hometowns of fraternity members, and maps indicating locations of creek samples taken as part of a biology experiment.

If you’d like help getting started, call or email the Help Desk and we’d be glad to help.