Locate update?

Saw that demo link when I rummaged through map posts here last night. Interesting. I have half dozen initial questions. How you want me to handle?

Post here? email?

You at the point where I can throw it on sandbox and test further?

LMK.

Thanks for the timely followup. Have a great day!

This summer without a doubt…

Excellent, because, you know, summer starts in like 5 days. :)

Please shoot me what you have, I’d love to start messing with it.

I see you are still working on the infobubble – excellent, the ability to put maybe a small image/logo, customizable (length) excerpt and then link to the listing will be great.

I assume we can preset the zoom we want on the map? And re-center based on search results?

I am curious if we can just skip the check of the ip? (I mean mine shows up 110 miles from my house, so it’s not always reliable). Where it’s just a Preset area map displaying all/filtered listings, and if the user wants directions, the they can put in an address (maybe via a link in a specific listing infobubble) or, if on mobile, then do some triangulation magic or something. (details above my paygrade).

Love the autofill of address/zip. That is a great feature. And related, I’m not sure what use I have for the Long/Lat boxes below, can they be eliminated, or are they needed for something else?

You’ve made great progress starting from basically scratch. If you weren’t so determined to put out a great product on day One, you probably would have been able to throw a release out months ago. :)

Thanks for your efforts here. My credit card is standing by. :)

On the infobubble, maybe an 10-12 word excerpt is too much, I thought it would be a nice option for a ‘Premium” listing though. Just a thought.

The ability to set a default map view (without browser/ip) is a pretty important feature, I hope it finds its way into it.

So as you know I’ve tested about 15 maps plugins, including several premium versions. These were based on standard WP stuff, not able to (easily) be used in Connections. The best of these was $24.95, the second best was $19.99, the third $17.

Based on your track-record, I know you’ll bring this to market at a fair and reasonable price (in fact, probably cheaper than what you could charge). :)

Will we be able to modify the map output based on the category of the listing?

Use case: We provide a free listing to selected businesses, but because of the sheer quantity of listings, we may want to have a map that only outputs those that are “premier” listings, or maybe those that are “pro and premier” – that sort of thing.

And in keeping with this theme, we don’t provide logo and excerpt information of the freebies in the directory, but we do on the plus/premier. IF we were to elect to have the “freemium” listings on a map, we’d want to have a way to only show certain of the infobubble field (e.g. logo/phone…) to those listings that were categorized as Pro or Premier.

Does this make sense? Will this be doable?

Thanks.