iWeb Issue: What to Do if No Address for "Add Google Map" Widget?

iWeb is a slick-as-only-Apple-can-do application.

The compromise for Apple in making such an elegant WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") UI ("user interface") is ("is") that you have to make some compromises in terms of flexibility and customizability.

For example, a great teaching tool in iWeb is the Google Maps widget. With it a teacher can quickly create a page on a land formation, historical location, or geo-political region (or anything else) and add a live google map to show it in its context (satellite, map, or hybrid). Sounds great!

The only problem (Problem? Impossible!) is that the Google Map widget only works with a valid address from the Google map database. If the location (a ravine, a bay, a forest) doesn't have an address, or the address hasn't been added to the Google DB, there is no way of pointing the map that specific location.

The good news is that there are work-arounds. (Which makes me think we could create a joke: How did the Apple chicken cross the street? It was dragged and dropped because it couldn't right-click.)

One solution is to find a nearby location that exists in the database and then change the reference frames of the map (drag the edges of the window) until only the area needed is visible.

Another solution is to use Wikimapia.org. This process is dead simple:

1) Go to Wikimapia.org and find your desire location on the map (using the controllers at the top left or by mouse grabbing and scrolling).
2) Once you have found your location, click on WikiMapia -> Map on your page

3) Drag the window to the positions you want for the map on your page.

4) Select and copy the black HTML code in the pop-up window.

5) In iWeb click Web Widget -> HTML Snippet

6) Paste the HTML code you copied from Wikimapia in the widget and position it where you wish on your page.

Hope this helps!