Is there no way to embed a Google Map into an HTML email?

Question

I have done a good amount of research and have found several \"solutions\" such as the static maps API and simply sending a link to a Gmap. However is there really no way to

Answer 1

You can create a static image map and send it by email, doing it in Perl: https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::Google::StaticMaps::V2

or simply directly by Google: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/static-maps/

It should be something like this in HTML part of the e-mail:

I have just tried it out and it works like a charm.

Sample code:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature ':5.10';
use utf8;
use Geo::Converter::dms2dd qw { dms2dd };
use Geo::Google::StaticMaps::V2;
my $map = Geo::Google::StaticMaps::V2->new(
width    => 800,
height   => 600,
sensor   => 0,
scale    => 2,
zoom     => 16,
format   => "png8",
type     => "hybrid"
);

binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
binmode(STDIN, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
$| = 1;

my %c;

$c{1} = [ '-6 55 57.00', '37 23 30.00' ];
$c{2} = [ '-6 55 57.00', '37 23 36.00' ];
$c{3} = [ '-6 56 02.00', '37 23 36.00' ];
$c{4} = [ '-6 56 02.00', '37 23 30.00' ];
$c{5} = [ '-6 55 57.00', '37 23 30.00' ];

my @location;

foreach my $key (sort keys %c) {
$c{$key}[0]  = dms2dd ({value => $c{$key}[0], is_lat => 1});
$c{$key}[1]  = dms2dd ({value => $c{$key}[1], is_lon => 1});
push(@location, "$c{$key}[0], $c{$key}[1]");
}


my $path = $map->path(locations=>[ @location ], geodesic=>1);
print $map->url;
$map->image;
$map->save("/home/data1/protected/map.png");