New Feature Release: Local Amenity Map Markers

Showing Local Business on Maps

With the release of our local amenities listings we thought it would be good for our visitors to be able to visualise an amenities proximity to the home. This also complements our feature for displaying other homes on the map.

For homes we use the same red marker as used previously but for local amenities we use a blue marker allowing the user to easily differentiate between the two.

Map with Amenities

Our map implementation uses the Google Maps API v3 which is the current version we had to port the basic functionality over from v2 when support for it stopped. We have a basic class representing this along side our other custom Google classes.

We also make use of a custom API to fetch the data used to populate the map with markers and a separate library to handle all the map JavaScript.

Next we plan to add some more map controls and layers to aid our visitors and improve upon their experience which is one of our main goals.

New Feature Release: Improved Maps

Better Info Windows Markers and More

Our first release of the year and we have new improved maps for homes using the Google Maps v3 API we now have support for info windows for each home, new style markers, improved titles and improvements to the JavaScript library.

We have a follow up version in development now to provide markers for local amenities by allowing map layers using a checkbox control. This will allow our visitors to get an idea of were the local points of interest are.

Map With Markers