By default, the Address Book Dashboard widget uses MapQuest to look up and display a map for the location of your contacts.

Rob Griffiths (of macOSXHints fame) provides a script and walk-through on MacWorld that will replace the MapQuest look-up with Google Maps, giving you pop-up balloons and all the other Google Map goodness.

I am not much of a widget man myself. I prefer to use the plug-ins for Address Book itself — Brian Toth’s Google Maps plug-in and UK Streetmaps.

But widget nuts will love Rob’s tip.

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Tags: Address Book, Dashboard, Google Maps, MapQuest, widget

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