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Add Marker labels onto your map
A little feature that one of our customers asked for which we think could be useful for many of our other customers - marker labels on the map are now available for general use.
Reordering Category Filters and Product lists feature launched
Category Filters are a powerful tool to allow your customers to be able to select from a list of store features or find locations which stock a particular product. Until now it wasn't possible to change the order in which Filters / Products were listed - today, that's changed with our new feature...
Continuous software improvement #1
In the spirit of continuously improving our store locator service, we regularly make changes to fix software bugs that have been reported or to add new features that have been requested by our customers. Individually these wouldn't necessitate an individual blog post to announce so we're bundling...
Add a store name search field to your locator
We've added the ability to add a search field to your locator which will search for a matching store name inside your list of stores.
Now Apple have dropped support for geolocation from Safari when HTTPS is not used
Following closely in Google's tracks with the limitations on geolocation in Chrome version 50, Apple have now dropped support for geolocation from “insecure origins” in the latest Safari builds Again, an insecure origin means any website which does not use an SSL certificate to encrypt the...
We've updated the Activity page to include detailed charts
By popular request we've made a number of major enhancements to the Activity page. Gone is the simple table of searches per day and in it's place we've included charts which break down the number of location searches conducted in your locator by different timescales.
Open Directions in Google Maps
A quick update to let you know that we've added an additional option that will open Directions inside an external Google Maps window instead of inside our locator.
A new type of Filtering
There's a couple of ways in which visitors to your store locator might like to filter the list of locations in your locator. Firstly, they might like to see all locations which might one or another filter. For example, they would like to see all locations which sell one product or another. The...
Custom Search Distances
We've just introduced an easy way to customize the search distances available inside your store locator so that you can define precisely which search distances your customers can choose from when narrowing down their search for your locations.