The most requested feature since launching MapHub has been adding collaborative maps. As of today, this is now possible!

Collaborative editing is one of the most powerful features of online tools, allowing multiple users to edit the same document together. There is a big problem though, making it possible for multiple users to edit the same document at the same time is really difficult.

For example, WordPress gives you this warning, when you are trying to edit a post that is edited by someone else:

There has been a number of new features added to MapHub in 2020. The following series of posts will introduct the most important ones.

A new Info widget has been added, which replaced the old right side map information.

The contents can be edited in the Title and Description fields.

Once closed it’s minimised to a small icon.

Different users are using MapHub in very different ways: some users create maps with hundreds or thousands of items, while others make each map into a “story” map, like a blog post.

Read more UI for longer descriptions

This update is for those who prefer to have longer texts containing many paragraphs in an item’s description. It was possible before, but there was no visual sign telling the user that there is more to read.

With this update, when an item’s text isn’t fully visible a “Read more” button appears and smoothy scrolls the description to the next page. …

To complement the Geolocation button added in the previous version, Directions button has also been added to the embed options.

What is directions button? It’s the small arrow symbol in the bottom right corner, which is shown when you select a “point” type item.

When you click it, it opens a native mobile app or a Google Maps website with a route planning pre-filled from your current location to the selected point.

Now it’s supported in the Embed Wizard.

The newest update has pushed a lot of improvements for the map screen on mobile phones, especially in landscape mode. While some of the bigger phones had large screens so that all of the UI was visible, on smaller phones, like on the iPhone SE, some of the buttons were covered.

In the newest update, the menu bar is automatically hidden in landscape mode on mobile devices, as well as all the buttons are dynamically reorganised depending on the device’s size.

You might not have seen a big update to MapHub for a while, but there have been lots of improvements under the hood.

Faster server and optimised code

The most important update is invisible: to keep up with the load, MapHub has now been moved to a much higher performance server. The code has also been optimised so that groups containing 1000+ items perform operations much faster.

Disable embedding and downloading

Many of you have asked to allow disabling of embedding and downloading of maps. These are now supported, in a new Advanced Settings dialog.

By checking these, visitors of your map won’t be able to download or embed…

The newest additions to MapHub are HD embeds and Embed Panel

HD Embeds

Map embeds have always been a very popular feature of MapHub, but some users found the initial image somewhat pixelated. With HD Embeds, when you embed a map on a website, the optimal resolution HD image is selected, no matter how big or small the embed is. Even full-screen embeds will look perfectly sharp on all devices.

They also feature a nice loading animation and a “Play” button to help users start interacting with the map.

Embed Panel

It is now possible to have a panel inside embeds! It also allows…

The newest tool to appear on MapHub is the filter tool, allowing real-time filtering on thousands of features.

Using it is very simple, just start typing into the filter text field and all features will be filtered in real time. It works with even thousands of features.

Clicking the “Fit All” button will zoom into all filtered features.