For bloggers: You've written a review of a new restaurant in your neighborhood, and you want to make it easy for your readers to locate the place. Use NotAMap to write a note on the right spot, then link to its permanent address from your blog or embed the map directly in your page.
For business owners: You want to add a map to your web site that your customers can use to locate you. Use NotAMap to put a pointer on your business' location, and embed the map on your web page.
For everybody: You want to agree on a place on which to get together with a friend. Use NotAMap to put a pointer in the desired place, then email the permanent address of the map to your friend.
Navigate to the place where you want your note, by searching for it or by dragging the map and adjusting the zoom. Then click on it. A bubble will open with some information on the place. Type your note and press the [post] button.
In two places: your browser's cookies and, if you want, the map's permanent address. When you post a note it is stored as a cookie, which allows notamap to remember your last session. And when you click on the "permanent link to this map" link you are transfered to a page that has your notes embedded in its address. You only have to keep the address, as a bookmark or in a link on one of your pages, because the address contains all the information required to rebuild the map with its notes.
Absolutely. As the notes are stored in the permanent URL of the map you create, you have no need to keep your data in our server.
When the URL of the map (the address as you see it on the address bar) corresponds with the map, the "permanent link to this map" link does not appear. As soon as you make any changes in the map (dragging or resizing the map, or adding notes) the address no longer corresponds with the map that you are seeing, and a "permanent link to this map" link appears. Follow it to go to an address that you can share, and which will encode the map exactly as you are seeing it.
You can just drag the right and bottom borders of the map.
You can change the position of any pointer just by dragging it around in the map. You can also reorder the notes by dragging them up and down in the note listing box.
Open the note by clicking on its marker, then click on the note's text. It will become a text input field, which you can use to modify the note's content.
Open the note by clicking on its marker. Click on the small trash bin on the lower right corner to delete it. You can clear up all the notes in the map with the "clear all notes" link.
When the map as you see it corresponds exactly with the map's address, as it appears on the address bar, you don't see the "permanent link to this map" link. You don't need it, as all the information of the map is encoded in the page's URL, which you can copy from the address box. As soon as you modify the map in any way the link will appear, there to remind you that the map you are viewing does not correspond with the URL in the address bar. You should therefore use the link before sending or storing the map's address.
Click on the "embed this map in your page" link. Copy and paste the code that appears in the HTML source of your page.
According to Google, "KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile." It is a simple way to keep your data in a format that can be readily displayed by all Google earth-browsing applications, and that is also human readable and very likely to be around for many years to come. We care about your data, so we make sure that you can save it in the de facto standard format.