Mac Tips Daily! #137 - Map Address Book Contacts

Submitted by jcost on Wed, 06/14/2006 - 08:19.

Have you ever needed a map to show you the route to locate a particular contact? Address Book in OS X Tiger gives you an easy way to map any contact in your address book.

Requirements: Internet Connection & a Physical Address entered in the address book for the contact you want to map.

Let's get to it:

Open 'Address Book'
Finder -> Go -> Applications -> Address Book
address book

Next, select the contact you want to map.

contact

Then, click on the 'circular cog', and a drop down menu will appear.
Choose 'Map This Address'
menu

Now you default browser will launch, go out on the internet, and show a map of your contact.
mapquest

This method used Mapquest.com to map your contact, but some people have even hacked it so it can use Google Maps.
To get the Plug-In to use Google Maps, visit www.briantoth.com


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