# Looking for a customizable USA map to put on a web page **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 1, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304 "2007-01-01T16:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304/1 "2007-01-01T16:11:00Z")
Don’t know exactly what to call it but here’s the thing… I belong to a group of vintage baseball card collectors from around the country and I wanted to put up on our site a USA map with “pins” noting where everyone is located. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304/2 "2007-01-01T16:37:29Z")
If you can handle programming simple javascript on an html page, look at this: [Microsoft Learn: Build skills that open doors in your career](http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/), specifically the “show a map \>\> show a specific map” entry & the "show pushpins \>\> add a default pushpin " entry. Note the “source code” tab. It is cut-and-paste simple to put a map on a page, and only a little harder to add hard-code to place each push pin. A real system with a server-side database of push pin locations would be a lot more work, but for a simple map with a couple dozen pins that don’t change much, this’ll do ya in 10-20 minutes tops. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304/3 "2007-01-01T16:57:25Z")
> **[frappr.com](http://www.frappr.com/)** > > This domain may be for sale! This is exactly what it’s designed for. ---
**Author:** ![MrFloppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@MrFloppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFloppy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304/4 "2007-01-01T16:58:57Z")
You could also take a look at using a ‘Frappr’ map here: [http://www.frappr.com/](http://www.frappr.com/) Every message board I go to has one of these it seems. Well…almost every one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304/5 "2007-01-02T17:24:49Z")
Thanks!!! Those both seem to be what I’m looking for… I just can’t seem to make them work very easily. I’ll have to experiment some more. Question… looks like Frappr is a way for guests to add themselves to a site. I want something that I control and it looks like Virtual Earth Interactive might work better for that. Agreed??? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-customizable-usa-map-to-put-on-a-web-page/386304/6 "2007-01-02T17:32:22Z")
Also, check out [mapbuilder.net](http://mapbuilder.net).