How can I make a printable map with points and labels?

I believe you can do this with Google Maps's http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676&from=21676&rd=2 feature.

Take a screenshot of your whole desired map, and put it into any graphics program (even MS Paint would probably do. You could do it in MS Word as well.) Put some text labels and arrows on top of your map screenshot and print! Basically the same as printing it and doing it with a sharpie, but the result will be a bit nicer.

http://ask.metafilter.com/194398/How-can-I-make-a-printable-map-with-points-and-labels#2798585 is totally right: My Maps in Google Maps will do this. You just have to right click on a point that you are adding and say "Save to Map..." and it will give you options of maps you've already created and the option to create a new map. Once you've added everything you want to it, you can go into this map in your "My Maps" and add whatever info you like, change the style of placeholders and manage the sharing settings, which also allow other people to collaborate on it with you. It's very useful. Then, when you want to send it to people for printing, zoom out so you can see all of the placeholders, then grab the link for it and send that link to people with instructions on how to print it out - which is to say, just click on the print icon in the corner and print it. It will print all of the descriptions and placeholders on however many pages it needs to make them all fit. A nice thing, too, is that you can add turn-by-turn directions to these maps, which I just figured out, by right clicking once you've asked for directions between two spots (and of course, you can drag these lines yourself to make them suit what you're wanting to do) and saving it to your map, as with the placeholders.

To clarify ... I have already created a "My Map" in Google Maps and put all my points on it, and added info to all those points. My question is how to get it to print the map with all the "point info" showing at the same time. For example: I need to see a map of California with a dot and the words "SAN FRANCISCO" next to it, and another dot next to the words "LOS ANGELES" and another dot next to the words "PALM SPRINGS" and so on. Right now I can only get it to show one of those labels at a time, so when I print I get a bunch of dots with no labels, and *one* dot that is clearly marked. All the info is in my map, I just can't figure out how to make it display properly, and I'm not even sure that Google Maps is the right tool for what I want to do.

I think you might want BatchGeo. It'll display labeled markers for up to 26 points (A-Z).

This appears to be possible with Google Maps if you use the http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#InfoWindows though whether it's possible to make a nice-looking printed map using such code I really couldn't say.

Are you clicked into the map itself in My Places (on the left of the map window, next to Get Directions)? That should show all of the points you have added to it. This is what http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=210127110267516402845.00049feffbb1e50fe0a2e&msa=0 looks like when I have chosen it from my list under My Places.

And, for reference, http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=210127110267516402845.00049feffbb1e50fe0a2e&msa=0&ie=UTF8&z=10&vpsrc=0&ei=E7FWTv2VHpP4MMjQuOAG&pw=2

Ohhh... I see what you are saying - labels showing with the actual bubbles above them. Sorry. I don't think that google maps does that at all, which is silly.