New Feature: Lettered Labels for Markers
Lots of people have requested this one, sorry for taking so long to implement it. Now maps containing 26 addresses or less will be labeled with alphabet characters on the map, and in the text below on the saved map page.
This way you can print out the map and take it with you! Here’s an example using our favorite map of Apple Stores in New York.
Feel free to post any constructive comments you have about this feature on the blog.
Comments
BatchGeo Rocks – Thank You. The different color markers and groupings are great.
It would be nice to have more than 24 markers based on the alphabet and simply have a numeric number assigned when there’s more than 24.
I’m guessing the limitations are a single letter/# in the marker display and the options available for making the marker display larger to accomodate, say, 1-3 numbers.
Generally speaking, I have not found a robust route planning site but it seems like an area batchgeo could conquer given the awesome set of capabilities it already has.
24 Lettered Label limitation is an issue for me– I am always doing more than that and end up hand marking the map with numbers.
Hopefully its on your list of upgrades.
This site is awesome as it is, the ability to map more than 26 markers really helps. Maybe an opton to use a column as the ‘marker ID’ so the user can decide what to use for markers (letters, numbers, or other)
Our default marker is still coming up as a dot, even with less than 26 addresses. What are we doing wrong?
Tara – are you using the Yahoo Geocoder?
I’m using BatchGeo and my markers show dots instead of letters. Please explain what I’m doing wrong.
Tara and Jerry–I believe you have to save the map before it shows letters. That was my experience. Hope it helps.
I had the same issue and then realized it was because I was at 27 locations. If you want alphabetical markers, you must have 26 locations (A-Z). After that, it goes to plain “point” markers.
Please please please make it so you can label the markers. When I look at my map and hover the curser over the marker, it shows the label that I want, but obviously I can’t hover over the marker on a hard copy print out. I’m having to write them in by hand on the printouts. This would be a great feature! Otherwise, love this program.