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Continuous software improvement #4
Part 4 in our continuous software improvement brings you another list of improvements to our store locator software designed to increase the flexibility of our offering so you can customize your locator to your customer or business requirements.
New Feature: Filters page
To make managing Filters even easier we've created a dedicated page for adding, renaming, deleting and arranging your Categories and Filters.
New Feature: Embed Code Builder
Over time we've added the ability for the behavior of our locator software to be customized by setting parameters in the HTML installation code. For example, you can control the starting map position, language, which Filters and Categories are enabled when the locator loads and which Filters and...
Google Places API integration
We're delighted to announce that we've now integrated the Google Places API with our store locator service. Places are what Google calls locations in Google Maps such as business locations. The Google Places API is a way of directly querying Places that exist in Google Maps so that customers can...
Enhancements to Address and Location list autocompletion
We've just released a number of small enhancements to the address and location list autocompletion when using either Mapbox or OpenStreetMap maps or when using our location search autocompletion feature. These are two fairly small updates individually but together represent a significant...
New feature - Click tracking
One of the core features of our Reporting services has been tracking and recording all searches conducted by visitors using your locator. For example, when a customer enters an address into the search field, we record this search location and the closest store that was returned so that you can...
Marker clustering added to MapBox and Open Street Map
We've been working on bringing the mapping features that are supported by MapBox and Open Street Map into line with what you've been able to do with Google Maps for some time now. The key feature that has been missing from our store locator software has been Marker Clustering. Well, the good news...
Continuous software improvement #3
We've been hard at work integrating a bunch of your requests into our locator and admin console to improve how the locator software works and also to make your life easier when managing it. This month we have a bumper list of updates for you as a large set of new features and additions have been...
Open Street Map support added to our store locator
We're delighted to be able to announce that we've partnered with a new mapping service provider to bring you our new Open Street Map integration. The major benefit of this integration is that there is now no longer a requirement to sign up for an API key with a third party such as Google or Mapbox;...