With version 4.2 we are very happy to announce a new partnership with LocationIQ.com as major highlight.
LocationIQ offers affordable, scalable and reliable location services since 2013. They serve 50k+ developers who make 2 billion+ requests each day. Their geocoding service can now also be used within Maps Marker Pro after signing up for an access token (tutorial).
Additional new features and improvements of v4.2:
If your gpx track includes a description you can now display this text within the popup of the track by enabling the new option “description” (advanced editor needs to be enabled):
Another GPX optimiziation we added with v4.2 is support for rte GPX files. Strictly speaking rte actually represents a route – an ordered list of waypoints representing a series of turn points leading to a destination, while trk represents a track – an ordered list of points describing a path.
Nevertheless many GPX systems seem to create rte GPX files by default nevertheless and those we not shown when adding those files to a map. So we built a workaround to also show GPX tracks on maps, if the GPX file consists of rte elements only.
The search in the action bar above the list of markers has also been optimized: if you start a search, you not only get the corresponding results in the list of markers but now also only see the related markers on the map and not all markers like before.
Screenshot from demo map before search:
Screenshot from demo map after search:
Due to customer feedback we also added support for a new shortcode attribute which allows you to dynamically show only certain markers on a previously created map, example: [mapsmarker custom="1" markers="1, 2, 3"]
With v4.2 we also improved the accessibility by optimizing the marker logic to better work with keyboard inputs. E.g. when tabbing down to the marker titles in the list of markers, the links should will now open the popup when enter is pressed.
Anyway please be aware that the leaflet.js framework is generally not fully ADA compliant though.
We also improved the performance for maps, especially when a resize is performed. This should result in more performance especially on low-end devices.
An update to the latest version is – as always – highly recommended.
Changelog for version 4.2 - released on 22.02.2019 (release notes)
 | implement LocationIQ geocoding provider (tutorial) | |
| add option to show track description | |
| update markers on map when search is done in list of markers | |
| add custom map shortcode attribute | |
| add rte fallback if no trk found in GPX file | |
 | optimize marker logic to work with keyboard | |
| throttle resize functions for better performance | |
 | marker highlight function could be broken | |
| fix broken openrouteservice.org demo link | |
 | updated Dutch translation thanks to Ronald Smeets, Marijke Metz, Patrick Ruers, Fokko van der Leest and Hans Temming | → contribute |
| updated German translation by Maps Marker Pro team and Daniel Luttermann | → contribute |
| updated Spanish translation thanks to David Ramírez, Alvaro Lara, Victor Guevara, Ricardo Viteri, Juan Valdes & Marta Espinalt and Fernando Coello | → contribute |
| updated French translation thanks to Vincèn Pujol, Rodolphe Quiedeville, Fx Benard, Cazal Cédric, Fabian Hurelle and Thomas Guignard | → contribute |
| updated Galician translation thanks to Fernando Coello, Jorge Castro Ruso | → contribute |
| updated Italian translation thanks to Luca Barbetti and Angelo Giammarresi | → contribute |
| updated Japanese translations thanks to Shu Higash and Taisuke Shimamoto | → contribute |
| updated Lithuanian translation thanks to Donatas Liaudaitis and Donatas Liaudaitis | → contribute |
| updated Dutch translation thanks to Ronald Smeets, Marijke Metz, Patrick Ruers, Fokko van der Leest and Hans Temming | → contribute |
| updated Russian translation thanks to Ekaterina Golubina (supported by Teplitsa of Social Technologies - http://te-st.ru) and Vyacheslav Strenadko, http://slavblog.ru | → contribute |
| updated Slovenian translation thanks to Igor Čabrian | → contribute |
| updated Swedish translation thanks to Olof Odier, Tedy Warsitha, Dan Paulsson, Elger Lindgren, Anton Andreasson and Tony Lygnersjö | → contribute |
If you experience any issues, please search our knowledge base or submit a helpdesk ticket.
Happy mapping!
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