Custom Google Map template used to show locations on your website in a different way than regular Google maps. It can be easily customised to perfectly fit your website style!

featured screenshot

This template can be applied on list views that have the following columns:

Template Field Type Usage
fldTitle Single line of text Image tooltip (alt)
fldLatitude Single line of text Latitude for the location
fldLongitude Single line of text Longitude for the location
fldDescription Multiple lines (Enhanced rich text) Location description, html content is allowed

Info

If you have different column names you can change them from the Apply tab and change field mappings from the Fields Mapping section.

This template has the following settings to play with. Below are the available settings with all options and their default values:

Setting Default Usage
componentDescription Our Locations Shows a caption that will appear at the bottom of the map
width 100% map width size
centerLatitude 25.19709 center Latitude for the map
centerLongitude 55.274797 center Longitude for the map
zoom 12 the initial resolution at which to display the map is set by the zoom property, where zoom 0 corresponds to a map of the Earth fully zoomed out

To get the Latitude and Longitude for a specific location from Google Maps, you can go to Google map's site and search for the name of the target location, for example here is how to get the exact location for Amman:




As can be seen, you can get the Latitude and Longitude from the url, the first value after the @ sign is the Latitude, and the second one after the comma is the Longitude.

The following libraries were used to help creating this template:

Custom Google Map
Google Maps