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We shipped today with the release of the Build 26 a new cool feature for your maps.

Now, every map published has a GeoRSS feed associated!

A GeoRSS feed is like a normal RSS feed, the only difference is that the coordinates of the marker is also embeded in the feed.

How to use the GeoRSS feed?

When you publish a map you already get a unique URL address of the map something like:
http://generator.click2map.com/maps/[username]/[map_name].

Now you can add “/georss” at end of the URL address and you’ll get the GeoRSS feed!

People visiting or using your map can now subscribe to your map feed by clicking the classic orange icon on the map page (note that all new moderns browsers detect also automatically the feed).

Then they will use their favorite news aggregator to read the map feed. They will be automatically informed when you add a new marker on your map!

We hope that you will enjoy this feature and don’t hesitate to give us some feedback about it.

The Click2Map team is proud to announce the release of the new version (1.0 Beta 1 Build 26).

We introduce a lot of changes in this build, and we tried to maintain a backward compatibility with the maps already created.

Here is a list of changes:

• ToolBar:
  • a new “Edit” button has been added to edit your map settings
• Map Dialog:
  • User Interface (UI) has been improved
• Marker Dialog:
  • UI has been improved
  • Description is now in rich format
  • New checkboxes has been added:
    • “Display selected properties in default tab” checkbox: if checked a default tab with the default properties selected will be display in the info window when you click on a Marker
    • “Description” checkbox: if checked the description will be display in the default tab
    • “Address” checkbox: if checked the address will be display in the default tab
    • “Coordinates” checkbox: if checked the coordinates will be display in the default tab
  • New properties has been added (”Additional Properties” Tab):
    • URL address and text of the link, usefull if you want to link to an another web page
    • Email address and text of the link
    • Tags, usefull to describe with keywords your markers
  • Name or ID property has been moved in the “Additional Properties” Tab
  • “Marker Info Window” Tab has been renamed “Extra Tab”: (Extra Tabs are displayed in the info window when you click on the marker)
    • UI has been improved
    • “HTML Tab” has been renamed “Text Tab”
    • New Tab called “Code” has been added: usefull if you want to add pure HTML code in the info window. You’ll be able to copy/paste YouTube video or widgets for instance.
• 35 new colors has been added in the default icon catalog
• Publish Dialog:
  • New option “Display Marker Description” has been added, usefull if you don’t want to display the marker description in the marker list
• Rendering improvement of the marker info window

We proposed our project to the commitee of startup 2.0 to be selected the best European web 2.0 startup.

So, if you like Click2Map and have few minutes, please vote for us!