In the modern era, customers find websites before physical locations. Yet, many purchases are made at a local brick-and-mortar place. Whether your company is a chain, or you distribute to many different stores, your website can help connect customers to your products in person with a map of store locations.

Save your customers from opening yet another tab or picking up the phone. You can provide them with an easy-to-use, searchable map right on your website:

View Apple Store Locator in a full screen map

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to do using our mapping tool to create a store locator.

Add Your Store Locations to a Spreadsheet

The first step of creating a store locator is to create a spreadsheet of your store or business locations. You might have even already compiled this information elsewhere, though you’ll want to make some adjustments when you transfer it into Excel, Google Sheets, or any other spreadsheet tool.

Ensure that each piece of data is in its own column, including:

• Address
• City
• State
• Zip code
• Store Name
• Phone Number

If you have many locations to map, that’s fine. You can add up to 25,000 locations per map with BatchGeo Pro.

Now let’s see how to display your store locations on a customizable map.

Copy and Paste Your Store Data to Make a Map

With your locations added to a spreadsheet, the next step in creating a store locator is to copy and paste your data into our tool.

To do so:

1. Select (Ctrl+A or Cmd+A) and copy (Ctrl+C or Cmd+C) your data from the spreadsheet
2. Open your web browser and navigate to batchgeo.com
3. Click on the location data box with the example data in it, then paste (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V) your own data
4. Click “Map Your Data” and watch as the geocoder turns your store addresses into coordinates

You can check to make sure you have the proper location data columns available by clicking “Set Options.” There are several customizations you can opt to make under “Show Advanced Options,” including map style, marker colors, shape, and more.

Once you’re satisfied, click “Save & Continue,” though you can always make edits later.

Go ahead and give your map a Title along with an optional description on the following page. Add your email if you don’t already have an account so that you’re able to come back to your map in the future. You’ll also want to set your privacy/share settings to Public, which will allow anyone to see your map.

Finally, perhaps the most important part: select “Store Locator” as your “Map Mode.”

View Apple Store Locator in a full screen map

Hit “Save Map,” and there you have it! The map displays all of your location information, phone numbers, and names of the stores. With your map complete, let’s finally see how we can add it to your business website.

Embed Your Store Locator Map on Your Website

So far, we’ve created a spreadsheet of your locations and turned it into a store locator map. Now, we’ll show you how you can add the same store locator map to your website.

Now, you could just copy the link of your map and paste it straight to your website, but we’re gonna take this one step further and embed it.

Right-click your store locator map and select “Edit Map.” Scroll down until you spot “Embed Code.” Copy the code and paste it into your website editor. For example, if you’re using WordPress, choose a “Custom HTML” block and paste it there.

More than just embedding it onto your website, you can also make it possible for users of your map to search for the location of your store that is closest to them with an additional setting.

Enable Users’ Ability to Search for Their Nearest Location

On the same “Edit Map” page as we previously described, scroll down to the “Locator” setting and enable it. When enabled, this will show a search bar on your map, which can be used to filter results and find the nearest to a given location.

Users of your map will be able to type in their location (such as New York City) and the map will automatically pull up which of your stores are closest to them.

Make your own store locator and display it on your website for free at batchgeo.com.

As the oldest major professional sports league in the world, Major League Baseball (MLB) is full of history. The MLB is currently made up of 30 teams, with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. But teams have moved, changed names, and even folded over the years. As a result, the locations we know today aren’t always the same as the past.

Nearly 80 MLB stadiums have been constructed that remained open after 1950. Some current fields are over a century old, though many are retired and have been repurposed as malls or parking lots. Additionally, some MLB franchises have faced multiple stadium changes, all of which we’ll find out on the map below.

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Oldest MLB Stadiums Still In Use

Of the 76 professional baseball stadiums ever constructed in the U.S. and Canada, the MLB only needs 30 at any given time for 30 teams (at least until the next expansion era comes along). The stadiums currently in-use range in age, with some having opened their doors as recently as 2020 to several as old as 1912. So let’s highlight the oldest MLB stadiums currently being used in the table below:

Stadium	Opened
Fenway Park	1912
Wrigley Field	1914
Dodger Stadium	1962
Angel Stadium	1966
RingCentral Coliseum	1966
Kauffman Stadium	1973
Rogers Centre	1989
Tropicana Field	1990
Guaranteed Rate Field	1991
Oriole Park at Camden Yards	1992

Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is the oldest MLB stadium used today. Opened in 1912, the stadium can hold up to 37,755 baseball fans (sort the map above by “Capacity” for the largest and smallest MLB fields currently in-use).

Just two years later, the slightly larger Wrigley Field finished construction. Today, up to 41,649 people can continue watching the Chicago Cubs play America’s pastime in the ancient stadium. Yet, Wrigley Field isn’t the only older stadium still standing in Chicago, Illinois. Though opening much later in 1991, Guaranteed Rate Field is in the older half of stadiums in use. That classification means there are many more (20) newer stadiums built between 1994-2020. Group the map by “Opened” to see for yourself.

After Wrigley in 1914, it took nearly 50 years for the next MLB stadium (that’s still used by the league today) to be constructed. However, that’s because many of the oldest MLB stadiums are no longer in use or have been turned into homeless shelters, other sports stadiums, or more.

Where Are Former MLB Baseball Fields Now?

In addition to the current MLB stadiums, 45 former fields closed more recently (after 1950). The oldest of these opened its doors in 1881, though that’s not even the most interesting thing about these former MLB stadiums.

While many former stadiums were remodeled and now are spaces for sports other than baseball—or parking lots—just as many have been turned into malls, hospitals, and churches.

• Shopping
  • Seals Stadium
  • Sick’s Stadium
  • Metropolitan Stadium
• Streets
  • Arlington Stadium
  • Athletic Park
• Hospitals
  • Griffith Stadium
  • Wrigley Field
• Closed but still standing
  • Houston Astrodome
  • RFK Memorial Stadium
• Buildings
  • Crosley Field
  • Polo Grounds III

Most notable among these former MLB stadiums is the Metropolitan Stadium, which closed in 1981. It’s now home to Mall of America, the largest mall in the U.S., though remnants of the MLB baseball field remain there to this day. The mall’s amusement park contains a plaque at the former location of home plate. Additionally, a stadium seat remains in its same location.

Yet Metropolitan Stadium isn’t even the only former stadium of the Minnesota Twins. Altogether, they’ve gone through three stadiums, as we’ll see when we cover the MLB teams with the most stadium changes.

MLB Teams with the Most Stadium Changes

What all these MLB stadiums have in common—regardless of whether they’re currently used or have been turned into a mall—is that they’ve all been the meeting place for professional baseball teams and fans alike. However, some franchises have gone through more stadium changes than others, as shown in the table below.

Team	# of stadium changes
Toronto Blue Jays	4
Texas Rangers	3
San Francisco Giants	3
Pittsburgh Pirates	3
Montreal Expos	3
Minnesota Twins	3
Cincinnati Reds	3
Atlanta Braves	3

While seven teams have faced three stadium changes, the Toronto Blue Jays should join the Hall of Fame as the team that has bounced around the most stadiums. Rogers Centre may currently be home to the Toronto Blue Jays, but it’s far from the first. Interestingly enough, of the four stadiums where the Toronto Blue Jays have played, two were located in cities… other than Toronto.

This is because the Canadian professional baseball team had to both use TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida and Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York from 2020-2021 due to COVID-19 border restrictions. The Blue Jays also previously used Exhibition Stadium, before it closed in 1989… which, of course, was located in Toronto, just a few miles away from Rogers Centre.

Additionally, Rogers Centre is considered one of the 500 Largest Stadiums in the World. See the rest yourself when you group the map by “Main use” and opt for baseball.

April showers bring May flowers, but what the heck happens in March? We suppose it brings…sports fans.

While the occasional Major League Baseball Opening Day takes place during the month, March is best known for college basketball. There’s the men’s tournament, aptly named March Madness, along with the NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament.

As of 2022, 40 single-elimination tournaments have been played since 1982. So let’s jump into winners, appearances, and winning percentages on the map below.

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NCAA Women’s Basketball Winners

There are 348 teams that participate in NCAA women’s basketball. Of these, just over 60 get to compete in the championship tournament each year. Less have won—even fewer still more than once, as you’ll see on the list below.

• UConn (11)
• Tennessee (8)
• Stanford (3)
• Baylor (3)
• Louisiana Tech (2)
• Notre Dame (2)
• South Carolina (2)
• USC (2)

Just eight teams can say they’ve earned championship rings more than once—though exactly how many times they’ve won varies. Just like the men’s team, UConn has the most wins as of 2022.

The Huskies’ 11 championship wins are three ahead of even the second-best Tennessee team—more than most teams have ever won in total. Even more than all those wins, UConn is also notable for its four-time winning streak from 2013-2016 and for appearing in the semi-finals in 14 consecutive tournaments, as we’ll see next.

Women’s Final Four Appearances

Wins aside, with 348 teams vying for just over 60 tournament spots, making the semi-finals is notable in its own right, especially if done multiple times. The following table contains women’s NCAA teams with five or more final four appearances.

School	Final Four Appearances
UConn	22
Tennessee	18
Stanford	15
Louisiana Tech	10
Notre Dame	9
Maryland	5
LSU	5
Georgia	5

UConn has the most women’s final four appearances, including 14 in a row between 2008-2022, which should come as no surprise, considering their wins. Similarly, Tennessee and Standford’s 18 and 15 semi-final participation is just as unsurprising. Tennessee, while notably absent from the final four since their 2008 win, previously saw multiple streaks in which they made the semi-finals four times in a row: 1986-1989, 1995-1998, and 2000-2008.

Stanford, though with fewer appearances than Tennessee, has appeared more recently in the final four. A semi-finalist in 2022, they also won in 2021. However, Stanford and the tournament do have a decently long history, as their first final four appearance was a win in 1990.

This is where the similarity between the winners discussed in the previous section and appearances ends. Baylor followed Stanford in wins, yet in appearances, Louisiana Tech rankers higher, even with only two wins. This makes us wonder about the winning percentage of the Lady Techsters and others from the map.

NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Champions’ Winning Percentage

With winners and Final Four appearances completed, we can now look to Finals vs. Champions to determine each team’s winning percentage. The table below shows this calculation for the 15 teams with at least one win under their belt:

Team	Wins	Finals Appearances	Winning %
Baylor	3	3	100.00%
Maryland	1	1	100.00%
North Carolina	1	1	100.00%
South Carolina	2	2	100.00%
Texas	1	1	100.00%
Texas A&M	1	1	100.00%
Texas Tech	1	1	100.00%
UConn	11	12	91.67%
USC	2	3	66.67%
Tennessee	8	13	61.54%
Stanford	3	5	60.00%
Old Dominion	1	2	50.00%
Purdue	1	2	50.00%
Louisiana Tech	2	6	33.33%
Notre Dame	2	7	28.57%

Seven teams hold perfect records… Of course, that’s a bit easier for the five with just one winning appearance. However, Baylor and South Carolina have perfect winning percentages with multiple Finals appearances.

However, the most notable may once again be UConn. With a winning percentage of 91.67% across 12 appearances, it just goes to show how seriously the franchise takes basketball—both women’s and men’s.

Speaking of, be sure to check out the Men’s NCAA Tournament Map: Who Has the Most Wins?