Our team is full of travelers and explorers, we love maps... it's been a long time coming to get a good functional map on PeakD.com ... at @hivefest in croatia we talked to the new @worldmappin team and they were not just willing but excited that we may integrate something. So we did... right there in one of the off days at hivefest the amazing @asgarth coded it all up right on the spot. There are possibilities to integrate more things into the map and there are possibilities that the @worldmappin team does so themselves. We are excited for the potential of maps.
Right now the map focuses on showing posts located all around the world.
Users have added a GPS coordinate on their posts (and you can too) the WorldMappin team over the course of many years has curated the posts to make sure there is a certain standard of accuracy.
This also means that the map doesn't automatically include all posts ever made that have the GPS in the post... the WorlMapPin team curates the posts and it's their Data Base that they provide with the pins and posts.
MORE TO COME
The PeakD team is hoping to add more items on to the map in addition to WorldMapPin pinned posts.
HOW TO GET TO THE MAP
- Go Directly to https://peakd.com/maps
- Choose explore then Maps
THE MAIN MAP
- Numbers indicate there are lots of pins in that area and you should zoom in
- Red pins mean you can click on them and see what post is from that location
VIEW THE POST ON MAP VIEW
- Easy to click a pin and read the post from that location
- Easy to get back to the map
QUICK VIEW OF LOCATION IN THE POST
- We have also added a zoomed in map inside your post
- This is ONLY for posts made on PeakD.com since the change (a good reason to post with peakd)
- This map has a pin to ONLY the location indicated by the post
ADD A PIN TO POST
- Click map button
- Select location on map
Adding Locations to OLD POSTS?
In theory this is awesome and we suggest everyone to map all their old location based posts... BUT... the @worldmappin team has informed us they're working on getting that functionality to work correctly. So hold off on it until they fix it.
That's all you have to do and the correct code will be in your post
FILTER BY AUTHOR
MAP ON YOUR PROFILE
- Users can put a map tab in their profile so people can see all the locations of their posts.
- You can go through all your old posts and easily add the location to those posts (once @worldmappin fixes this to work)
- This should help make this map better
ADD THE MAP TO YOUR PROFILE
- Select "PeakD Settings"
- Scroll to "Account Metadata"
- Select "Enable Maps View"
If you click on that button then the map tab will show up in your profile
FEEDBACK
- What do you like the most?
- Are you going to edit your old posts with locations?
- What else would you like to see on the map besides WorldMapPin posts
- Any issues you have experienced you'd like to inform us about?
Call to Action
Vote for our proposal here: https://peakd.com/me/proposals/peakd
Specifically this proposal - https://peakd.com/me/proposals/311