I was working on making a locations page for a multi-location restaurant concept. The overwhelming trend currently is to include a Google map with a marker for each location.

Huge companies that have locations all over the globe have massive map databases and much different hurdles to overcome - being able to search by town or zip code, Wi-fi availability, hours, and so on.

For my particular project, I only had a few needs:

Include a map on my page
Show a marker for each location
Each marker shows the address and can provide directions
In order to do this, I was going to need Google Maps APIs, a part of Google Developers.

My biggest misconception with Google Maps APIs before looking into them is that you’re embedding Google Maps as we know it into the site. I thought that by simply including a marker for the location, all the information would pop up in the sidebar, such as address and a search bar for directions.

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