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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Joined-Up Maps

I've been rattling critical lately close the lack of evolution of the Google Maps JavaScript API. We've had to facial expression a long fourth dimension for whatever novel features to locomote added to the API. Today, however, Google has announced a novel characteristic as well as it's a adept one!

Signed-in Maps allows your users to sign-in to your Google Maps API applications amongst a Google account. Once signed-in users volition locomote able to run across their Google Maps saved places (for instance their dwelling as well as operate addresses) on your Google Maps application. They volition besides locomote able to salve locations from your location, which volition as well as then display on the official Google Maps website.


Save a location on a Google Maps API app & it volition as well as then demo upwardly on the Google Maps website or telephone app

The simplest instance of this inwards activeness powerfulness locomote a shop locator or a 'where nosotros are' map. You could role the Google Maps API to practise a uncomplicated map to demo potential customers the location of your business. If you lot role the novel Signed-in Maps characteristic on your map your users volition locomote able to salve the location of your describe of piece of employment organization through their Google account. Then, when the user wants to discovery your business, they tin opened upwardly Google Maps on their mobile telephone as well as run across your describe of piece of employment organization starred on their map.

As you lot tin run across inwards the screenshot inwards a higher house the saved location non alone displays on the primary Google Maps website it besides shows which Google Maps API application it was saved on.

The novel Signed-in Maps characteristic has a release of keen potential uses. For example, if you lot forthwith practise a map of local restaurants you lot tin let your users to salve the restaurants that they fancy visiting. They tin as well as then persuasion all their saved restaurants on whatever Google Maps site.

The Signed-in Maps characteristic has ii primary methods for signed-in users to salve locations. You tin let users of your map to salve a location past times adding a uncomplicated 'save' selection to an information window.  Alternatively you lot tin add together a Save Widget, which allows you lot to house the salve selection exterior of an data window.