So this is a site to create maps, using the Google Map technology, and then to annotate them. Stuff like creating a map of your local restaurants, or a map of your best fishing spots in your area. Yes, it could do a lot more, but it won't, ever. Simple things are better, and featuritis affected sites piss me off. Who cares if you can compute the distance between point A and point B, or mark the location of your "friends", this is not what this site is about. If you are in need to get in touch with your high school buddies from the eighties, just go away. You can send me feedback here.
Below is a FAQ of interrogation people might have about this site, enjoy.
I would like to be able to add picture, draw lines, and get directions (or do anything else beside create maps and add markers)?
Well, you can't. This is intended to be a very simple yet efficient mean to create maps and tag locations on them, if you need to know more about the map, the area it covers, of a specific marker, you can use the search engines of your choice.
Updated Sep 4 2009: Mapmotive is now integrated with Flickr and Panoramio photo services, and with Youtube. You can add youw own phots to your maps, or just photos from random public feeds.
Why can't I create a private map or a map where no one else can add markers?
This is more or less a community site, I do not intend this place to be a super social hub like you know which other sites, but I like the idea of someone being able to contribute to any maps. Lets all be a happy bunch and share spots, that is the goal.
Updated Dec 16 2008: Ok, I gave up, you can now create maps where only you can add markers, its in the option panel when creating or editing a map...
How come it is free?
I built mapmotive.com with the pure masochistic desire to accomplish something good. More seriously, its free because I think (desperately hope) one day I may be able to monetize this with ads or something else (you feeling the positive energy here?), for now (and probably for a long time), I accepted I would lose some money (but not a lot, hopefully) with it. I built this at night, on week-ends, as a fun project because I thought the Google map API was just great.
I have a problem login in, creating an account, creating a map, adding a marker, what do I do?
One thing to start with, get a good browser, get Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox (their latest versions), then try again. Without bragging, this is quite cutting edge technology, it will not work with a vintage PCs, or some exotic setup like Konqueror on AS400. (Thought it might, who knows) Not to mention, this thing might work on my computer only as far as I know :) If it still does not work, don't get angry at me, after all, this is a free site, observe rule #1 for debugging, restart your computer and try again. Still not working? report the issue to me with as much details as possible, your browser, your computer, your credit card (just joking), and the error message you get, I might not jump on it like if my life depended on it, but if it gets reported all the time, I will look at it and see if I can fix.
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