MapHub

Group-in-group support on MapHub

Fri, 17 May 2024 09:48:15 GMT

The most requested and technically most challenging feature over the last two years has been group-in-group support for items on MapHub.

Until today, you could only create items and groups on MapHub in a single-level hierarchy.

One example of such a single-level hierarchy is the Berlin Zoo map, which looks like this: items in groups but not groups within other groups.

With the latest release, we finally made it possible to have groups inside other groups. This means you can have any structure you imagine, like in a file system on your computer.

For example, it is now possible to have a hierarchy like this:

Moreover, you can freely drag and drop elements in the sidebar to rearrange their order and hierarchy.

You can also select groups using the drop-down selector.

Filtering works across groups:

As well as hiding all child items:

Excel and CSV import and export also work seamlessly if you use the format shown in the screenshot.

Note: When working on an Excel or CSV file, make sure to copy and paste the special ／ character—it is not the same as the / key on your keyboard.

This feature is now available on all plans, including the Free plan.

Try it out on MapHub.net

Interactive videos on MapHub

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:57:34 GMT

Adding interactive media to a MapHub map is very simple.

Select any item where you’d like to show the chosen media.
On the right side panel, paste the media’s URL to the Video / Media field.

That’s it, there is no step 3. The media will now display on the item’s popup.

Currently, we support embedding media from the following providers:

YouTube
Vimeo
Twitter
TikTok
Facebook
Brightcove

Moreover, for users on the Business plan, we support embedding custom MP4 files. This means, for example, if you have a video on a company CDN, you can include that video as an interactive item on a MapHub map.

Have a look at the following map demonstrating this feature:
https://maphub.net/hyperknot/video-media-demo

Zoom controls on MapHub

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:52:42 GMT

One of MapHub’s most frequently requested features is to specify the initial view of a map. This is now possible, as well as other advanced zoom-related features.

Note: By “zoom” or “view”, in this blog post, I’m referring to the map’s bounds or “bounding box”, as it’s called in the GIS world.

Start view

The “Start view” button allows you to specify the initial view the map should open at.

For example, your map is based around Italy, but you have one single point very far in San Francisco. This is how it’d open automatically.

By clicking Zoom Controls / Start view / Set

You can specify the current view as the map’s initial view. A red rectangle will show the current view’s bounding box.

After you are done, click the “Start view” button again to hide the red rectangle.

If you save and reload the map now, it will open showing the selected area only.

View limits

This button works the same as “Start view” but allows you to specify the view limits of the map. If you have view limits activated, your visitors won’t be able to browse the map outside of that area.

Link to the selected item

This button allows you to generate a link that opens the map centered on a specific item. You have to select the item first, then go to the Map tab and click the “Link to selected item” button. After setting the preferred zoom level, you can generate a link by clicking the “Generate link” button.

Preview as visitor

This button allows you to view the map as a visitor or viewer. On MapHub the same URL opens a map in “editor mode” or “viewer mode”, depending on if have the rights to edit a given map or not.

By clicking this button, you can check how the map would look for a visitor.

Autoplay on MapHub

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:15:18 GMT

A widely requested feature has just been added to MapHub: Autoplay for embeds.

When you are embedding a MapHub map on your website, by default it doesn’t load the whole map, but only shows a static image with a green triangle “Play” button. This is similar to how a YouTube embed behaves on a website: it only starts loading the video once you click the Play button.

While this makes sense for most websites, many users have requested to directly load the map. This is now possible for all users on the Business and Enterprise plans.

Have a look at the new Embed wizard, you’ll see it on the first tab!

Note: Why is it only offered on the Business and Enterprise plan levels? Unlike normal embedding which just serves a static image, an autoplay embed takes a lot of resources for the server and hosting, thus when your website gets popular we have to serve every single viewer with a full map. This costs money and is the reason why it is only offered on Business+ plan levels.

The former Teams plan has been renamed to Business plan. Nothing else has changed, only the name.

MapHub API

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:08:33 GMT

MapHub API Update

MapHub’s API allows you to create and modify maps on MapHub entirely programmatically. For example, you can write a Python script to create a map from scratch or update an existing map with GeoJSON data.

The API has just received a big update, allowing you to utilize functions that were not previously available.

As part of the API update, we’ve published a detailed tutorial explaining the concepts behind MapHub’s API. In the tutorial, you’ll create a Python script, which takes a table (in CSV format) and a directory of images and creates an interactive MapHub map, entirely programmatically.

MapHub API tutorial - Create a map from a CSV table: link
MapHub API docs: link

MapHub archive ZIP

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:39:08 GMT

There is a new feature on MapHub which allows you to save an archive ZIP from your current map. This is a special ZIP file that includes all data belonging to a map, including images, markers, and all metadata.

Using this feature, you can now achieve the following:

Back up your maps from time to time and store them offline on your computer.
Copy / Duplicate a map: Download the MapHub archive ZIP and import it again to duplicate your map.
Move a map to a different user: Download the MapHub archive ZIP and let another user import it to their own account. You can delete your original map after this.

Download MapHub archive ZIP

Click the Download button then you can select this new type.

Import MapHub archive ZIP

Go to My Maps and click the button at the top.

MapHub is 100% Google-free as of today

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 21:03:39 GMT

MapHub has never used Google Maps for its map or geo-search data.

MapHub fonts are not linked from Google Fonts, but are directly served from our server.

As of today, MapHub is free of Google Analytics.

In summary: MapHub has absolutely no advertising or tracking script or “Like buttons” from any social media or advertising company.

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What did MapHub migrate to? Plausible Analytics, an open-source and privacy-friendly analytics without any cookies, self-hosted on our own server.

Real-time collaborative maps on MapHub

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:10:07 GMT

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:

In MapHub I didn’t want to implement a similar “limited” collaborative editing but felt the right way to do this is to allow users to edit together maps in real-time.

Real-time editing

What does this mean? How does it look in practice?

The first step is to register on MapHub with multiple accounts. Say Alice is the owner of a map and would like to collaborate with Bob and Cecil. She asks Bob and Cecil to register on MapHub.
Then Alice invites Bob and Cecil by clicking on the new Collaborate button.
After saving the map, Bob and Cecil will see the map showing up on their “My Maps” page.
By opening the map, they’ll go into real-time collaborative mode. If the real-time connection is working, a small green dot appears in the top right corner of the Save button.
Now the pure magic part: everything they do will show up on each other’s screen, in real-time. For example, what about a game of tic-tac-toe?

This works with different devices, across different networks equally well. For example, one user might be in the office on a desktop computer, while a colleague is in the field using a mobile phone or tablet, their devices will be synchronized!

Save often, and in case you made any mistakes, there is always the possibility to revert using the “Version history” button.

Try it out!

Have a try at collaborative maps on MapHub! As of today, collaborative editing is enabled for all MapHub accounts!

MapHub updates: Info widget

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:05:50 GMT

There has been a number of new features added to MapHub in 2020. The following series of posts will introduce 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.

Also, in the Embed Wizard, it can be turned off by default.

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.

Bug fixes

There was a bug, which didn’t allow unlocated images to be saved, which has been fixed.

Also, if you import geometry with illegal coordinates (for example latitude > 90 degrees), those are now automatically fixed instead of being removed.

Better UI for mobiles and geolocation support in embeds

Tue, 07 May 2019 16:07:01 GMT

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.

Before and after on an iPhone SE

Before and after on a small screen Android phone

Moreover many fixes related to iPhone’s Safari browser have been implemented, making sure that the UI is never covered by the address bar or tab bar, and the buttons always stay visible. This was quite tricky to get right, so if you encounter any bugs or UI problems related to the changes, please share it in the forums.

Geolocation button in embeds

Another new feature is support for geolocation control in embeds. By enabling this feature, your users will be able to click the small circle button in the lower left corner and the map will instantly show their positions even when viewing an embedded map on a website.

MapHub performance update and new features

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:42:14 GMT

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 your map on other websites. As the owner of the map, of course, you can always download and embed your own map!

Advanced Settings dialog

Visual ordering of items

A common problem users encountered was that the visual order of items on the map was not following the order in the side panel. This is now fixed, meaning you can set the visual order of individual items and whole groups by dragging in the right side panel.

Links to other maps

If you use multiple maps with links between them, a common problem was that links opened in new tabs. This has been fixed now, and links to other maps will open in the current tab.

When embedding, links to other maps will preserve the embed window and open the new embed in place of the old one.

Open embed links in the same tab

Another feature request related to embeds was to open links to websites, not in a new tab, but in place of the current page. Now, this is supported as a new option in the embed wizard.

Better display of Cyrillic fonts

If a map uses Cyrillic characters, it’ll be automatically detected now and a system font will be used, for the best display of characters.

Cover photo by Andrea Reiman on Unsplash

HD Embeds and Embed Panel on MapHub

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:30:29 GMT

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.

Loading animation on HD Embed

Embed Panel

It is now possible to have a panel inside embeds! It also allows you to do real-time filtering and “Fit to Items” functionality as well.

Embed Wizard

There is a new dialog for selecting the embedding options. It even provides detailed instructions on how to embed your map in a Wordpress website.

Filtering and CSV export on MapHub

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:17:17 GMT

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.

Also new on MapHub

CSV export

Full-size panel when viewing Maps

Panel on embeds

Embeds will have a nice wizard in the next update, allowing you to configure how they look!

If you cannot wait for the embed wizard, you can try adding ?panel=1 to the iframe src URL, like the following code:

<iframe ... src="https://maphub.net/embed/31776?panel=1" ...></iframe>

Introducing MapHub Images

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:37:46 GMT

For a very long time, users have been asking how to upload images to MapHub maps. The solution involved uploading images to image hosting sites and using a special syntax to display them. This was neither user-friendly nor produced good looking images.

This has now been changed, with MapHub Images!

Have a look!

Even though this feature hasn’t been announced yet, some users already started creating maps using MapHub Images. For example, MapHub user JacobJohansen created public maps about his personal recommendation maps for Japan and Shanghai with amazing detail.

How to upload images to MapHub maps

There are two ways to upload images, using the Camera button or the Add Image button.

Camera button

The camera button in the left side button bar uploads an image and creates a new point.

Images with GPS information

Using the camera button, if you upload an image with GPS information, it will be automatically placed on the map.

Images without GPS information

If there is no GPS information, the image has to be placed manually using the item panel’s “Place Image” button.

Add image button

You can also add images to all existing items, using the item panel’s “Add Image” button.

Linking to URLs

In addition to images, a new field “Link” has been added, which allows you to add links to items.

About image sizes

When you upload an image, it will be resized to multiple sizes and the best size will be auto-selected for all screen sizes. You don’t have to worry about resizing the images beforehand, just always upload a high-resolution photo to have the best looking results.

New Multi-Select tool

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:05:08 GMT

To help working with a large number of items on MapHub, a new tool has been developed. The Multi-Select tool allows selecting multiple items using a rectangle selection.

Multi-Select tool

Using it is very simple: just draw a rectangle around the items you’d like to include in a selection.

Using the Multi-Select tool

Using the selection to modify items

Once you have selected some items, you can do operations on all items at once, like:

changing colors
changing icons
moving items to groups

Refining selection

If you’d like to refine the selection, you can use the Shift and Alt keys to include or exclude items.

Using Shift and Alt keys

Multi-Select using the item panel

You can also use the Shift and Alt keys to select multiple items in the item panel.

Using Shift and Alt keys in the item panel

Cover photo by Danting Zhu on Unsplash

Custom Icons on MapHub

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:05:46 GMT

Have a look at the following map to experience it yourself. The map is showing the Berlin Zoo, using icons from EmojiOne.

https://maphub.net/hyperknot/custom-markers-berlin-zoo

Using custom icons

You can add and select custom icons simply by clicking the “Add Icon” button in the icon selector.

For the best results, use a PNG image with transparent background, which is at least 80x80 pixels in size.

How to make custom icons?

You can create icons using your favourite image editor program. Make sure it’s at least 80x80 pixels, has a transparent background and save it as 24-bit PNG image. Upon uploading it’ll be automatically be resized to the optimal size.

Some websites where you can find icons:

Cover photo by Alyssa Kibiloski on Unsplash

Simplify Maps

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:17:14 GMT

Since MapHub started using Mapbox GL for it’s map engine, interactive maps with thousands of points became a possibility.

The problem with displaying so many points on an interactive map is that too much detail could easily ruin the user experience.

Today, we are announcing Simplify map, a new setting, which enables you to only show the details when it is needed.

How to use it

You can simply enable Simplify map on the Info panel. After that try zooming in and raising the level using the +/- buttons as you prefer.

On lower levels markers will be displayed as dots and labels will be hidden. After zooming in, all details appear.

cover photo by Katya Austin on Unsplash

Organize into groups, reorder and hide items

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:26:36 GMT

The most requested features on MapHub have always been to provide better tools for organizing items. These include reordering them as well as organizing them into groups / folders. These are now possible, and are very simple to do.

Reorder items using drag and drop

Organize into groups using drag and drop

Using the group selector

By importing

If you import a file, it’ll automatically be imported into a new group.

Hide and show items and groups

You can make both items and groups hidden by clicking on the visibility/eye icon. After this, the “Show all” button will only zoom to the visible items.

Batch operations using groups

Using groups, you can do batch operations on many items at once

set colors
set marker symbols
move and copy to groups
export to GeoJSON

cover photo by Colton Duke on Unsplash

MapHub’s brand new engine: Mapbox GL

Tue, 29 May 2018 15:22:54 GMT

When I started MapHub I thought most maps would feature a maximum dozen points or so, like if they were illustrations in a book.

It turns out many users found very different use cases, and started to use MapHub to create database-like maps, featuring over 1000 items!

Handling these data heavy maps were a big limitation in the original MapHub engine, Leaflet. While Leaflet is a wonderful JavaScript library for displaying light maps, it was extremely slow for these data heavy use-cases.

The great news is that I’ve finished migrating MapHub to a brand new engine, MapBox GL JS! MapBox GL is based on hardware accelerated WebGL and handles even the biggest MapHub maps at super smooth 60 FPS!

Want to see the difference on your device? Here is one if the largest maps, community collaborated public map of Polish football clubs.

old version, using Leaflet
new version, using Mapbox GL

New possibilities

Mapbox GL allows huge possibilities in implementing widely requested features, like smooth zooming (already enabled, try it!), dashed lines or label rotation! And of course, vector tiles (soon)!

What’s next?

Reordering and organising items into groups, in a super nice, intuitive way? The most requested feature ever? Mmmm.

cover photo by Olga Stalska on Unsplash

MapHub and your data

Mon, 28 May 2018 14:28:16 GMT

MapHub is committed to be compliant with the strict requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union. We do not differentiate between European and global users and we treat all user data according to GDPR.

What data do we collect?

We collect as little data as possible for our operations.

For registered users the only required information is a username and email, both of which can be changed in the Profile Settings page. Specifying a display name, organization and website is optional.

We only store anonymized IP addresses in our database.

We do not collect your geo-location data.

We do not provide a newsletter, and in the future if we do provide it will be opt-in.

We use Google Analytics with anonymized IP addresses to help us understand how the website is being used. We do not pair analytics to MapHub user accounts.

Server logs and Sentry error reports are retained only for a limited time.

Who can access your data

We do not share your map or user data with any third party, only the administrator of the website can access your data.

Exporting your data

You can export all your map data in the native GeoJSON format, as well as in KML and GPX formats.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account on the Profile Settings page. Deleting your account deletes all your data from our database.

On-premises MapHub

If you or your business would like to have 100% control over your data as well as the reliability of the service, we might offer a pilot project where you can host a MapHub instance on your own infrastructure.

You can read our full Privacy Policy here.

cover photo by Tj Holowaychuk on Unsplash

Future plans for MapHub

Wed, 02 May 2018 14:54:25 GMT

When I started MapHub two years ago, I didn’t know how would people use it and what kind of features users were looking for.

During those two years I’ve received a lot of feedback by email and on the forum, and it really helped me understand what users are looking for.

I’m working on implementing them right now, and they will be implemented in MapHub stable version.

New features

Better item organising

grouping of items
reordering of items
hiding/showing both items and groups
filtering

Images, videos and custom markers

custom markers
simple image uploading
simple video embedding from YouTube and Vimeo

Collaborative editing

allowing multiple users to edit maps together

MapHub stable version

Once these new features have been implemented, MapHub will be out of beta version.

Premium plans

I strongly believe that there should be no advertisements on MapHub and user’s data should never be shared with 3rd parties.

The business model will be based on a freemium model. Most features will be available in the free plan, but some will require a paid plan. There will be plans for hobbyist projects and for businesses.

All the features of the beta version will be included in the free plan, as long as you are using MapHub basemaps and your map is public!

If you are a business user and would like to see specific features implemented, please email me.

Self-hosted MapHub

Many business users have asked me about the following issues:

If using MapHub how can we make sure that our data is not accessed by anyone?
How can we make sure that MapHub will stay running reliably?

While MapHub doesn’t share and will never share your data with any 3rd party, and I’m working hard on making sure it’s always running reliably, I can never guarantee you the same level of service as if you were hosting it on our own infrastructure.

If your data is critical for your business self-hosted MapHub might be the solution for you. It’ll allow you to host your very own MapHub, on your own server, even behind a firewall or even in an air-gapped environment!

If your business is interested in a pilot project, feel free to contact me by email.

Big MapHub update: brand new version

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:11:26 GMT

It was 2 years ago that I launched MapHub, and it has been reliably running ever since. There were no big, technological updates, just bug fixes and smaller feature requests I’ve received on the forum, on Facebook and in email.

During those 2 years, MapHub users have created over 25000 maps, some of them edited over 1000 times, which still sounds unbelievable for me!

Many of you have expressed your needs for more new features, showing a clear pattern about what you’d like to see. I believe this is great, since 2 years ago I didn’t know what direction MapHub will take, but now it’s clear: it’ll go in the direction of what most of you have asked! (More in a follow up post.)

I’d like to thank many of you who wrote positive messages, it really meant a lot when tackling difficult technical problems and when paying for the server and the increasing basemap provider bills.

What’s new in this version

The most important changes are:

The map viewer has been rewritten from the ground up.
The website got extended with account management and public profile options.

Map viewer changes

The new old map viewer. Everything looks like before, but is actually brand new under the hood.

OK, some great news for you, who prefer software which just works: I hope you don’t notice any changes!

So why the big fuss about this update?

Yes, it took a lot of effort to rewrite the map viewer/editor from the ground up using React, but it looks and works exactly like before. Still, if you find something which is broken, please open a topic in the forum.

New search

MapHub’s previous geocoding provider, MapZen has shut down, resulting in search errors on MapHub in the last month. MapHub’s new search provider is OpenCage Data, offering search results from 10+ open datasets.

Also, it is now possible to save the search results, automatically creating a nicely formatted name.

New search allows saving the results

Popups have been improved on both desktop and mobile browsers. On desktop, the maximum popup size is now bigger (560 px wide), allowing you to include higher resolution photos in popups. If you include a larger image it is automatically resized.

On mobile phones, the popup is now nicely filling up the available space, making sure that everything is visible. When the popups are too tall, it becomes scrollable, as can be seen from the right side scroll bar.

Embed `<iframe>` in popups

It is now possible to embed <iframe>-s in popups. Iframes are used to display interactive snippets from websites, such as from weather stations or videos.

The syntax is very simple, just insert

{iframe src="..."}

{iframe src="..." width="400" height="600"  }

in the description field.

If you select a point on any MapHub map, a new button will appear. Clicking it opens Google Maps with the directions to that point as destination.

Profile Settings

Profile related options in the top right menu

You can now make the following changes yourself:

Changing username
Changing email
Changing password
Deleting your account

Public profile page

The public profile page has a new design, and can include optional information such as full name, organization or a link to a website. For example this is how my public profile looks:

A public profile page

What’s next

In the next blog post I’ll write about the future of MapHub, what features will be implemented and a plan to make it financially sustainable.

New icons in MapHub

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:38:53 GMT

We’ve just added some new icons!

Check them out!

They are from the amazing Maki set from Mapbox, Font Awesome and Google Material Icons.

Also, if you need any particular icon, feel free to contact us!

Launching MapHub Beta

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:06:56 GMT

If you remember how the Internet looked before YouTube, you would never forget how every website implemented custom video players, which were half broken, half waiting for Flash to load, and all shared one thing in common: they were all black boxes you could not interact with: there was no way to watch videos pleasantly on mobile devices, to share them with friends, to download them or to interact with their creator.

Today, 11 years after Google Maps and OpenStreetMap have launched, the landscape for creating, sharing and embedding maps on websites is largely the same: every website implements a custom map viewer, or sometimes just a Google Maps screenshot, which at the end are all so similar to what video players used to be: black boxes with no way to view them pleasantly on mobile devices, to download their data or to collaborate with their author.

Google tried an alternative with My Maps, but the platform is so closed that most websites prefer not to use it and have no choice but to keep implementing custom solutions.

I believe there has to be an open alternative: a map platform which allows anyone to create maps which can be shared, embedded on websites or downloaded to any mobile app a user prefers to use.

So, after years of experimenting with simulating holograms on tablet screens, working on making an educational OS for the Raspberry Pi and hacking educational games using 3D sensors, at one point I realised that if no one is going to create this website I should try doing it myself.

This idea got so strong, that after living in the UK for 5 years, I left my London life, returned to my home city, Budapest, and decided to start working on MapHub full-time. It was a really intense time, learning about the rich ecosystem of open-source tools around OpenStreetMap, setting up my own full-planet tile-server, implementing an interactive map editor and trying to create importers and exporters for crazy file formats like KML.

In the meantime my good friend Gergely from Holfuy weather stations joined me part time, and after eight months of this intense learning, experimenting and hacking time I guess we can finally call MapHub beta public.

I will be writing more about the technical details and how we built MapHub, but for now, we would love if you could share your feedback with us, either on our forums, or by emailing us.

Zsolt
(hyperknot)

MapHub

Group-in-group support on MapHub

Interactive videos on MapHub

Zoom controls on MapHub

Start view

View limits

Link to the selected item

Preview as visitor

Autoplay on MapHub

MapHub API

MapHub API Update

MapHub archive ZIP

Download MapHub archive ZIP

Import MapHub archive ZIP

MapHub is 100% Google-free as of today

Real-time collaborative maps on MapHub

Real-time editing

Try it out!

MapHub updates: Info widget

Read more UI and search in description

Read more UI for longer descriptions

Search / filter by description

Share your map!

Directions button in embed

Bug fixes

Share your map!

Better UI for mobiles and geolocation support in embeds

Geolocation button in embeds

Share your map!

MapHub performance update and new features

Faster server and optimised code

Disable embedding and downloading

Visual ordering of items

Links to other maps

Open embed links in the same tab

Better display of Cyrillic fonts

HD Embeds and Embed Panel on MapHub

HD Embeds

Embed Panel

Embed Wizard

Filtering and CSV export on MapHub

Also new on MapHub

CSV export

Full-size panel when viewing Maps

Panel on embeds

Introducing MapHub Images

Have a look!

How to upload images to MapHub maps

Camera button

Images with GPS information

Images without GPS information

Add image button

Linking to URLs

About image sizes

New Multi-Select tool

Using the selection to modify items

Refining selection

Multi-Select using the item panel

Custom Icons on MapHub

Using custom icons

How to make custom icons?

Simplify Maps

How to use it

Organize into groups, reorder and hide items

Reorder items using drag and drop

Organize into groups using drag and drop

Using the group selector

By importing

Hide and show items and groups

Batch operations using groups

MapHub’s brand new engine: Mapbox GL

New possibilities

What’s next?

MapHub and your data

What data do we collect?

Who can access your data

Exporting your data

Deleting your account

On-premises MapHub

Future plans for MapHub

Embed `<iframe>` in popups