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Two new Open Street Map map styles released - Pastel and Topographique

Thanks to our partners at MapTiler we've released two new map color schemes for Open Street Map today.

Unlimited OpenStreetMap Usage

In an industry first we're allowing all customers to use the OpenStreetMap mapping service that is built into our store locator with no limits on usage. Read on for more details.

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...