I’m not even sure who created this – there have been 3,500 comments here in the last 5 days – but I’m very thankful for it and I heartily invite you to add you and your car to the Saabs United Google Map.
We did have another map service a few years ago, but I think this one might be a tad more reliable.
Click to enlarge.
So how do you get yourself onto this map?
First of all, you need to click here to get to the map.
Next, you need to login using your Google Account login. If you don’t have one, you can create one while you’re there.
Once you’re logged in, zoom in to find your location on the map, so you can place your pin there.
In the top left hand corner of the map screen, you can see a series of three buttons. One of them is a button for a placemarker. Click on that placemarker button and drag it to your location.
Once you’ve marked your location, you can then write in your name and some details about your car. If you’ve got a URL for an image, you can place that URL in an image field and put a photo with your marker as well.
It’s pretty easy to use, and a good indicator of how global and wide reaching the Saab community is.
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My sincere thanks to the guys who organised this map. Great stuff!
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74stingray “on the map”
really drives home the fact this is a “world wide” community and effort.
Beren on the map – Turbo-X 19
Pinned
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And if you zoom in you can see ‘black beauty’ herself (Google wagon must have wandered by in the summertime because there’s a blanket of white stuff covering the neighbourhood now!)
Saabheart added with a picture of my 2 Saabs
Done. Markac’s Monte Carlo 9-3SE Coupe is on the map.
Are you near the cemetery Swade?
I hope there’s no dead Saabs there!
EnG is where I should be! Took me a minute to figure that whole edit/scroll/then see the buttons thing.
Someone named Sandy is out in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico — I want to see that Saab!!
Added with pic of car.
74stingray, what colour is your car?
Got me pegged over in SE Alaska…you can almost zoom into my roof-rack
Seems like Turbin’s taken his Saab for a swim in the Bass Straight!
Parked out front of our house, right? You live on a bend in what looks like a nice neighbourhood. Bet the XWD comes in handy in Toronto winters?
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Great idea. First one in Michigan!
‘Representing from Saskatchewan, Canada! I’m definitely letting my friends know the correct information about Saab during the 09 Crisis, courtesy of Swade’s excellent site!
It’s kind of strange you can edit someone else’s entry. Is it supposed to be like that?
Added mine last night, it’s a great idea and pictures always speak louder than words. It’s a visual world and this needs to be widely shared when it really gets rolling.
5th & 6th Saabs pictured…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3657/3522025100_5e25041f8b_o.jpg
Placed myself on the map, too!
Curiously, there are many Saabs amongst my neighbors’ cars. At least 3 in my building.
Joel I, I remember driving my 1973 99 through southern Canada in 1975 (on my way to Denver Colorado) when Saabs were quite the oddity. Lots of long looks and questions in every gas station. Same thing in West Virginia when traveling with a friend in 1971 in a Saab 95 wagon, lots of head scratching and wondering going on. Meanwhile, both trips were grand for us behind the wheel.
Maybe I’m just going blind in my old age, but I neither see three buttons on the top left, or anything that looks like it will let me add a placemarker…
I didn’t see them either, mattlach. So, nah it’s not your age. Any ideas, people? I’m logged in.. no buttons to add myself.
You have to be logged in and then click edit.
(I place the marker on the map, but once I revisit the page, it’s gone. Don’t really know why. Can’t seem to get it to stay there.)
Marked but nothing is there. Been living here nearly 3 years but it’s a new project….
Are you using Internet Explorer?
Mine didn’t work in Mozila Firefox…
I have the same problem. With the list of names on the left hand side, click page 2. That map seems to get updated.
That was using Opera. Seems a bit different with Firefox.
“Parked out front of our house, right?”
Royal We?
Metropolitan Toronto streets are clear for now (though ground well covered). Bound to change soon…
BTW: There’s a Saab adrift the West Coast of Iceland!
I just realized that the map doesn’t show all the markers: only the ones on the selected page (on the bottom of the right column). That’s a bit lame.
Nevertheless, I was at page 2. 
Everything was fine after all.
Ahh Hitting “edit” did the trick.
Thank you.
Boohoohoo, only 2 Saab’s on Long Island, my wife’s black 9-5 (visible from space) and my Viggen. I know that SAAB didn’t sell a lot of cars, but this is ridiculous.
Done
I’m in !
Hey Zippy, west ender, eh ?
I’ve just added the mark to RUS Moscow.
O.K….
Now to establish the superlatives:
Northern-most?
Though I see something in the middle of Greenland, and a lonely soul well into Siberia…oh, they’re gone…it seems our colleague ‘Amaranthen’(Norway) is currently in the lead.
[Wot...No Saabs in Trondheim?]
Yup. Nice to live right in the centre of town.
Place marked, in Madison.
How do you get one of those cool SAAB logo markers?
i cant find the buttons that let you put on the pins. any help?
Note to everyone, you have to press the EDIT button before you’ll see the map marker options.
ok got it, thanks chris. I’m pinned!
hey if someone knows how too get all pins on one card it would be great. there are so many SAABs on it that there are alredy three pages(maps)
Yeah, thanks for the info!
Note to all you guys, press EDIT and then you will see the THREE BUTTONS that Swade mentioned.
The text box that comes up after pressing EDIT is not where you add your car/location info.
added!
my SportCombi is the third in Moscow???!!
BTW, is it possible to refresh the map on the SU mainpage?
our community is a bit wider:)
hey if someone knows how too get all pins on one card it would be great. there are so many SAABs on it that there are alredy three pages(maps)
These things just never seem to work for me…;
Can’t find the three buttons in the top left hand corner…!! So I’m unable to put my Saab on the map…
done! my wife and his cabrio too!
You have to press the EDIT button first
Hmm, I am still the only one from BG. Gotta change that…
Wow, thanks !!
Would never have found that myself…
I’ve just put them on the map; Saab 9-5 and a 900, Maasdam, Netherlands.
;_)
It appears that currently I am the only one from Turkey; although Saabs are very rare cars to come by here,I know there are others.
please update “howto” in the post:
you need to press “add to my maps” and “edit” before you can place marker
got back there and did not find myself in Saint-Petersburg, Russia **(
“The Eagle Has Landed !”, hehe
Nick, There are 4 in St Pete, you have to go to the bottom of the list and click on it. Same thing happened to me when I added the shop, couldn’t find it, it was on page 2.
Page 3 :-O
UK Saab Drivers.
You are letting the side down.
Please put your cars on the map.
This is more important than the ashes.
1) Why is everyone constantly changing the title?
2) Why is my marker sometimes (at some heights) visible and sometimes not, although all others remain visible, regardless of zoom-level?
3) Swade, hows life in Atlantis?
Ohh, and:
4-ish) Why is is often so difficult to log in on SAABsUnited? Most of the time, the site doesn’t link me to MoveableType to log in, only after ten tries it works (sometimes).
South Africa (both country and part of the continent) are empty. I know at least one person from SA is a regular here.
Also South America is empty.
Right now I’m the only one from Romania.
I think is better to put a short process description on Description field of the map.
That way people will not change that and will get info exactly when needed.
Added my yellow dream car
just added a brandnew white 9-5 full action picture
I think Google has some serious work to do to make this all work a little bit easier. Nevertheless, it’s amazing to see we have so many saab enthusiasts around the world!
and i wanna be there when it happens!
Swade, is there a way to subscribe to SU postings somehow? I expect an interesting post to appear one of these days
Pages?I cannot find the blue round marker anymore. Clicked on it and went to put it on the map. The map went south and the marker went to up around the NorthPole. It won’t give me a box. That was Safari and now I can’t even see any map anymore. My computer needs more memory. Maybe the problem.
SAAB is parked on the map.
SAAB forever!
wow, about 300 saabs on the map before going to bed, now got up and thanks swade’s frontpage article we are more than 650 now
think i should add a picture of my good old 900 to the description.
I put a pin down in Oslo..
Got it to work. My car is there now!… she’s on the map! Yeah!
Got it to work. My car is there now!… she’s on the map! Yeah!
I put mine on but when I revisit the map it’s vanished. I definately ‘saved’ when I pinned. Can anyone else see me (in Basildon, Essex, England)?
done. put a marker in Hilversum, Netherlands, including a link to photo’s of my 2 9000′s (a 9kCC and a 9kCDgriffin)
I think all markers are displayed if you select the last page. At least for me, I can see all markers now.
Simon, you’re on the map! (four times…
) i even noticed your Saab itself on Google Earth
I’m still not seeing anything! I’m gonna try Internet Explorer….
Added few friends from the neighbourhood in DH, Saudi Arabia
I can see it using Internet Explorer. Must be a Firefox problem. Now how do I remove the extra tags
….. or should I leave them one for each car and one for all the parts I’ve got in the shed and loft!
Only six Saabs in Connecticut?! Come on people. I see more Saabs at my neighborhood Dunkin Donuts in New London!
BTW: What’s with the amphibious Saabs on the map? Would be a great new option. lol.
800+ saabs on the map
Something is indeed wrong with that map.
Mine disappeared.
And appenrently I edited someone else’s.
Not on purpose.
@ Zippy
my SportCombi is Steel gray Metalic…
Got it… Finally.
Had to add it to “my maps” before I could put my car on the map.
Done. Last nite actually. Page 2. First in South Carolina USA, I believe.
Holla out to whapadang and Moby in Charleston
wilfried, it did the same thing to mine, then a couple of hours later it re-appeared. Apparently, the map is catching up with the rest of the people trying to post at the same time.
I know there’s more SAABs in Houston than the ones posted… I’ve seen them on the road!!!!!
As regards ‘Northern-most’:
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And the prize goes to ….Tromso,Norway!
[Sorry Trondheim
[South America is no longer virgin territory thanks to our Chilean friend].
Boy does that map app eat memory. I’ll be needing a Cray soon!
Steve’s ’94 9000 Aero is a U-boot.
Great Idea, but be careful when you add your place mark. Don’t edit an existing one, but add a new one. Otherwise the one being edited will disappear and your will take over. I have added mine 5 times now, but it keeps disappearing…
Great concept though to be able to see where the fellow Saab nuts are located…
The main map title and description box have been changing repeatedly over the last 3 hours. Please do not edit the main Map Title or Description that appear underneath the Edit button. Edits have to be done in the box that appears *after* you place a blue pin on the map in Edit mode. The main map title **DOES** get indexed in search engines, namely Google (duh!). To protect the integrity of the map for search indexing, I’ve just added this title and description:
/* ************************************ */
SaabsUnited Google Map
SaabsUnited.com Google Map.
DO NOT EDIT HERE. Place a blue pin on the map. Make all entries in the box appearing next to the pin.
/* ************************************ */
If these English-language instructions do not translate well, please suggest or add alternatives. Someone had added a nice simple set of edit instructions in the description box about 2 hours ago. Those have been lost in the last hour and I didn’t make note of them. So, I added the text above that’s between the asterisks lines.
The Google Map thing certainly is not intuitive the first time through. But … this exercise is fun and informative!
SAAB Up!
…it seems you can only see the place marks on the map for the Saabs mentioned to the left page wise only…
Very cool. I wish it was possible to view all the “pins” without having to go to different pages. Amazing how far we all reach around the globe!
Just for kicks, here’s the picture I posted with my pin:
http://members.cox.net/aizzo/DSC_3973-small.jpg
Happy Holidays to all!
I have added my mark in Plovdiv, Bulgaria but so far I am the only one resitered in the city. I know there are many more arround as well as in other parts of Bulgaria. I invite all members of http://www.saab-club.com to registar at the Google map
don’t know why but at first i couldn’t see all pins, but since yesterday it’s working fine. i’m using firefox 3.5.6
maybe i’ll take a screenshot and send it to swade for his mainpage.
btw gm headquarter is on the map now!
page 6
Priceless
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A blue pin for a silver 2008 ’93 in Athens Greece.
Done!
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