Highlights and Use Cases

• Custom Style (Size, Map Type, Zoom, Marker)
• Custom Locations (Search Radius, Number of Location per Map)
• Import locations easily from a CSV file
• Single Image URL to embed in your email and/or website

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File Type and Size Specifications

• image file types accepted - .png, .jpeg, .gif (static only)
• size limitations - map - 640 x 640 pixels max

Options for Customization

• Map type: Roadmap, Satellite, Hybrid, Terrain
• Zoom level: 1 (World) to 20 (Building)
• Saturation: -100 (fully black and white), 0 Normal, to 100 (fully color saturated)
• Marker Color: custom HEX
• Marker Letter: ability to choose a letter within the marker
• Marker URL: image url for a custom marker (*this is not the map clickthru or tracking url*)
• Search radius: 5-100 miles (5,10, 30, 50, 100)
• Max results to show on the map: 4
• Fallback image - what will show if no locations are within the search radius specified

Mapping the Dataset

• Import full address - if your CSV file contains the Address but not the latitude and longitude (Google will sort it out from there)

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• Import lat / long - a CSV dataset with Latitude and Longitude for all your locations

What location will my subscriber see on their map?

• If your file has a field that contains Location ID for location, you have the option of using this for subscribers that either cannot be geo targeted or have already given you their preferred store.
• If your file has a unique marker url, you have the ability to show different marker images per location.

How Mapping Works

By default, without any of the overrides below, here is how we determine what map to show:

• First we get their IP Address from the request.
• Next we look it up in the IP2Location database
• If this IP is a proxy (Google Webmail, Yahoo Webmail, etc...) we show the fallback image.
• Otherwise we get the Latitude / Longitude and use the Distance formula from Microsoft to get the closest X number locations.
• If there are locations you have uploaded within the map parameters you configured, we download the map from Google and display it.
• If there are no locations, we show the fallback image.

Note: This is not the same functionality that your phone has. Guessing the location from an IP address is not very accurate, you should use one of the merge tags below that you collected when the recipient subscribed.

Override Options

Defaults