New feature alert! This has been a long time coming, the ability to edit map data on your saved map.
I struggled for a long time with the best way to implement this, and eventually decided it would be best if it would work almost exactly like the geocoder screen. All of your data is accessed by editing the underlying tabular dataset in a spreadsheet.
If that sounds complicated, its not! All you do is copy/paste the data into your favorite spreadsheet app and edit it. When you are done, copy/paste the data back into the web page, and run through the validation and map options step. It works just like the home page mapping workflow, except latitude and longitude can be imported so you don’t need to re-geocode everything.
This gives you a ton of flexibility and control over your data, no clicking around proprietary administrative interfaces. Just edit in a spreadsheet, paste in, and go!
You can also drag markers around on the edit map screen to fine tune their location if the geocoding wasn’t accurate, same as the front page workflow.
The new edit interface is available to maps created starting March 13th (you will automatically get emailed the URL.) Please give it a try and let me know your comments.
I’ve lost the ability to drag markers on my map. Yesterday it was working fine, and today it only works on the preview after the map is created (before saved).
It causes problems when markers are on top of each other and do not break off at any magnification. I normally drag them to the side to see what is under.
I also agree with someone elses suggestion: allowing more than 6 “groups”.
When making a store locator, is there a way to set the zoom level of the located store? Mine are “zoomed in” too close and I would like to have the user see what other stores are in the general vicinity.
Absolutely fantastic tool. Its brilliant. Thank you.
I just don’t get it. I have been using batchgeo for a while, love it, but I have no idea where to go to edit maps. I also need to have different groups of data with different map markers, can I do that somehow?
Thanks
Nevermind on the editing…got the email. Different map markers though would be cool.