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A Brisbane-based company called Social Horizon has come up with a tool that they claim is the world's first to makes Google Maps URLs manageable.

One problem with internet mapping services, such as Google Maps, is the length of the URL displaying your desired location. It’s usually far to long to paste easily into other applications and, because it usually has co-ordinate numbers in it, is impossible to memorise.

Now, Social Horizon has come up with aMAP.to, a service that creates short map links for your email, blog, Facebook, Twitter and other needs.

Go to the homepage at www.amap.to. Create a map. Click to create your own link. Now cut and paste the link into any application.

aMAP.to was written by Huw Griffiths Scollay Petry and Jack Gonzalez, the founders of a travel site called Qguide.com. The service makes money by referring visitors to hotels. The URL service is free however.

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