Up until now, when you land on a Google map, you have no idea who actually created this map. The person who did it gets the benefit of showing you the things he wanted you to see on the map, but we thought that this was not enough. Mapping is like blogging: It should be clearly attributed to someone. Or at least we feel this is how it should be.

Today, Click2Map is releasing a new feature that enables our users to more deeply customize the look and feel of the maps you create. Every elements of the map is now customizable: header, footer, fonts, sidebar, colors, driving directions and address finder.. You name it, we customize it! (scroll down to the end of this post to find the complete list of customizable objects)

We are really excited about this new feature as our existing users know that before today, you could customize some aspects of your map, but the modifications were not happening live. You had to hit save and see if the modifications were ok. Now if you want to remove the address finder from the sidebar for example, it happens right away. Feel free to try different color combination, experiment sidebar looks, reflect on your visitors’ experience once they will land on your map… You can make decisions on the fly, making your map creation process richer and faster.

We also added a pretty neat feature for Silver accounts and up: the URL and email in the footer. Like we mention in the introduction, someone could land on your map, but nothing would actually indicate that you made it. No attribution on the Web is like anonymity, it doesn’t benefit your business. With Click2Map’s new feature, your Google maps are becoming a real traffic and lead generation tool! That’s quite some news, isn’t it?

For our existing users, simply log in your account, hit publish, and start playing around with the new map customization tool. For new users of Click2Map, go on Click2Map’s sign up page, compare our offers and pick the one that suits you best, and start customizing your maps too!

Not convinced yet about how good-looking your maps can be? Watch this video where Click2Map takes its top off and shows you the whole shabang:

Here is the complete list of today’s new addition:

Publish map as a Web page:

• Preview in real-time
• Show/hide map title
• Show/hide map description
• Show/hide the sidebar
• Show/hide the sidebar after clicking an item in the list
• Hide the sidebar upon startup
• Modify the text in the footer
• Link a Website to the map
• Link an email address to the map
• Turn on/off the address finder
• Turn on/off the live traffic view feature (only available in some countries)
• Customize each element’s style:
  • title: font, size, color
  • description: font, size, color
  • footer text: font, size color
  • sidebar text: font, size, color
  • markers’ title: color, underline
  • active tab’s background color
  • active tab’s title color
  • inactive tab’s background color
  • inactive tab’s background color
  • borders’ color
  • page’s background color

Publish maps as a widget:

• Real-time preview of the widget
• Show/hide sidebar
• Show/hide sidebar after clicking on an item in the list
• Show/hide sidebar upon startup
• Turn on/off the address finder
• Turn on/off the live traffic view feature (only available in some countries)
• Customize each element’s style:
  • title: font, size, color
  • description: font, size, color
  • footer text: font, size color
  • sidebar text: font, size, color
  • markers’ title: color, underline
  • active tab’s background color
  • active tab’s title color
  • inactive tab’s background color
  • inactive tab’s background color
  • borders’ color
  • page’s background color

Other upgrades

• Updated HTML editor for rich text areas (markers’ description for example)
• Updated KML file uploader, now accepting drawings (polygons, lines) during import.

Happy Mapping with Click2Map!