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Mac 101: Get a Google Map from Address Book contact
How many times have you looked at an Address Book contact address, only to realize that you don't know where they're located? What do you do? Most would copy and paste the address into Google Maps, but there is a better way! In a contact's Address Book card, right-clicking on an address and clicking on "Map Of" will launch your default browser and map out the address in Google Maps.
If you are using Tiger, you will need to install a plug-in, however, this tip works beautifully in Mac OS X Leopard.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
William McIntosh said 9:12AM on 9-24-2008
once again?How do you do this on a laptop.
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Dah Cheet said 10:00AM on 9-24-2008
I think it's control-click or option-click. If you have a newer Macbook you can click with two fingers to do a right click.
William McIntosh said 10:03AM on 9-24-2008
Control/Command.....Double click thanks
zack said 9:44AM on 9-24-2008
Only because it's somewhat related and I haven't seen anything else about it:
In the Calendar app on the iPhone, when you enter an appointment and location for the appointment, there is no way to tap on the location and have it mapped. And with the missing copy/paste, the only way is to either write down the location and then re-enter it in Google Maps, or remember the whole address and enter that to Maps.
This is dumb.
I asked at the Apple Store and they said there's no way to do it.
This is really dumb.
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Richard Trenholm said 9:47AM on 9-24-2008
This is on the iPhone as well, but far more useful would be the option to select am event location and go straihgt to GMap. After all, if you're going to a specific place for a specific event that's when you need a map.
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(01) said 10:17AM on 9-24-2008
One nice thing I've fond on the iPhone is that if a someone calling you isn't in your address book, the phone will give a geographical area the number is located in (I.E., someone from Disney Studios called me yesterday from an 818 number which the iPhone displayed as Northern LA)
Joe said 10:01AM on 9-24-2008
I was having trouble with this hint as I was trying to map my hope. However, it does not work on my own card. When I do it on another contact it works great. So, please don't try it on your own card.
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babyfett said 1:36PM on 9-24-2008
Really? You really had to write that? You need to see your own home on a map? Because this is so silly I had to try my own home and it worked just fine. But really?
Markito said 10:09AM on 9-24-2008
Ok,
let me make it easier for all of you.
Instead of having to right-click on the address, just do a normal click on the word/title "Home" or "Work" just to the left of the address.
This brings up three options: "Map of", "Copy Mailing Label" and "Copy URL of Map". No right-clicking required.
Incidentally, you also get drop-down options by clicking on the titles just to the left of email addresses, phone numbers, etc.
Word.
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Rafe H. said 10:52AM on 9-24-2008
Most of the fields in Address Book have context-sensitive menus, just click their labels. Sorely missing in Leopard is the ability to make your cell phone dial a contact, and that makes "Large Type" that much more useful.
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François said 12:11PM on 9-24-2008
In my french version of 10.4.11, the "locate" feature of the address book points to a substandard european loacation site. Is there a way (terminal?) to use google maps, as on my iPhone?
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grifmx said 12:55PM on 9-24-2008
The first thing I do whenever I get a new Mac is replace the large clunky Mac mouse with a lightweight 3/4 size nimble 2-button logitech mouse.
right-click opens up all the 2-handed option-click possibilities on the Mac.
I always tease my PC wife when she asks me for a phone number and I say nothing, displaying it to her in LARGE TYPE!
I've also found "dial with Skype" option useful after getting a Skype number.
Wow, can I make money too - blogging about how to use tight-click on your Mac?
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