Joined-Up Maps

I've been real critical lately virtually the lack of evolution of the Google Maps JavaScript API. We've had to await a long fourth dimension for whatever novel features to last added to the API. Today, however, Google has announced a novel characteristic in addition to 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 last able to encounter their Google Maps saved places (for instance their abode in addition to function addresses) on your Google Maps application. They volition too last able to salvage locations from your location, which volition in addition to thus display on the official Google Maps website.


Save a location on a Google Maps API app & it volition in addition to thus present upward on the Google Maps website or squall app

The simplest instance of this inwards activity mightiness last a shop locator or a 'where nosotros are' map. You could role the Google Maps API to practise a elementary map to present potential customers the location of your business. If you lot role the novel Signed-in Maps characteristic on your map your users volition last able to salvage the location of your describe of piece of job concern through their Google account. Then, when the user wants to discovery your business, they tin opened upward Google Maps on their mobile squall in addition to encounter your describe of piece of job concern starred on their map.

As you lot tin encounter inwards the screenshot higher upward the saved location non solely displays on the principal Google Maps website it too shows which Google Maps API application it was saved on.

The novel Signed-in Maps characteristic has a seat out of bully potential uses. For example, if you lot straight off practise a map of local restaurants you lot tin let your users to salvage the restaurants that they fancy visiting. They tin in addition to thus sentiment all their saved restaurants on whatever Google Maps site.

The Signed-in Maps characteristic has 2 principal methods for signed-in users to salvage locations. You tin let users of your map to salvage a location past times adding a elementary 'save' pick to an information window.  Alternatively you lot tin add together a Save Widget, which allows you lot to house the salvage pick exterior of an data window.