The Google Map Block: Show Visitors Exactly Where You Are

Drop a live, pannable map onto any page by typing an address — no coordinates, no embed code to copy, and no API key needed to get started.

“Where are you actually based?”

Your contact page has the address typed out as plain text, and every visitor who wants to actually find you copies it into another tab to see it on a map. So you go to Google Maps, hunt for the share menu, copy a wall of iframe code, paste it into a custom-HTML block — and then it sits there at a fixed size, spilling off the edge on a phone. Change the address later and you do the whole dance again.

The Google Map block turns that address into a real, pannable map. You type where you are, and the map centres itself right there.

Point it at any address or place — type a street address or a place name and the map centres there, with no coordinates to look up and no embed code to copy out of Google.
Set the zoom level — pull back to show the whole neighbourhood, or zoom right in on the doorstep, so visitors see the map at the detail you want.
A height for every screen — a tall map on desktop and a shorter one on phones, so it shows plenty of the area without eating the whole mobile screen.
Boxed or full width, keyless or your own key — keep the map inside your content column or run it edge to edge, and use it with no API key or add your own for the official embed.

Setting one up takes a minute. Type the address or place, drag the zoom slider until the framing looks right, pick a height for each screen size, and the preview loads the live map as you go. No CSS, no iframe code, nothing to paste.

A place name, centred and boxed. The map points at a well-known landmark at a neighbourhood zoom, sitting inside the content column.

Zoomed right down to the street. The same block at a high zoom level, close enough to read the surrounding streets and pick out the entrance.

Full width, zoomed out to the region. The same block set to full width and a low zoom, showing the wider area as an edge-to-edge band.

Ready to put yourself on the map?

The Google Map block ships with Flexa Block. Install it and it’s waiting in the editor the next time you open a page — the live maps above are the same block.

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