Here's an amazing site I stumbled upon, http://www.quikmaps.com
You can doodle or draw on a map using google maps, and then it generates code so you can paste it into your post, like this. So useful!
You can fix meeting places, draw the entire route, zoom out and in, change from photo to map mode, and all sorts of stuff.
Google maps have seen what the quikmaps people are doing and will soon release a version of their own too.
Go to the quickmaps site and have a play, no need to register.
It is probably not dialup friendly.
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