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Allowing users to submit points to your site is one of Mapster’s most powerful and unique features. You can create a crowdsourced map very easily and get unique and helpful information from your users. There are a lot of options to create or edit points, allow different user permissions, customize text and custom fields submitted, […]
Mapster includes Maplibre out of the box, which doesn’t require an API key and doesn’t require any kind of signup. While Mapbox offers a lot more features and options, for your more basic maps, Maplibre is a fantastic option. In the past, people used to use LeafletJS for free mapping, but it’s been left behind […]
A Store Locator is a big part of any WordPress mapping plugin. Mapster WP Maps isn’t necessarily specialized in only making store locators, but if you’re interested in really making it your own, it’s very customizable. The Store Locator allows you to create a list of locations with custom information like opening hours, addresses, and […]
Mapster WP Maps is built with developers in mind. We are developers ourselves (obviously) so it was important to make sure this plugin was properly extendable. That being said, it’s your choice whether you want to build your maps completely from custom or to use Mapster WP Maps as a starting point. If you’ll need […]
Heatmaps are a great way to show a big heavy dataset in a way that visualizes data quickly. In Mapster WP Maps, you can customize your heatmap in a few different ways: Here’s a simple heatmap with some earthquake data across the west coast of the US and Canada. […]
While the default type of popup in Mapster is your typical click-to-open dialog, you can also open information in a much larger view. This is great if you’re showing more information or want to really focus the user’s attention on what appears. You can also show shortcodes in the modal popup! […]
Mapster WP Maps tries to make it as easy as possible to import your various kinds of geographic files along with all their properties. In the Free version, this works great for files that contain up to 100 features, but might slow down or time out if you do more than that. That being said, […]
One of the most valuable features in Mapster Pro is the ability to edit more than one feature at once. Whether you’ve imported a ton of features, or suddenly realized you need to change something small, the Mass Editing allows you to change just about any information on sets of features you’ve already created. We […]
If you’re a heavy user of Mapbox, Mapster WP Maps might just be a great plugin to ease your workflow. Mapster WP Maps integrates completely with Mapbox Tileset Service (MTS), allowing you to generate large datasets into tilesets and update them on demand. This is quite an advanced feature but can let you power a […]
Map projections are all about how we depict a sphere (the earth) on a flat surface (the map). There are a lot of different ways to do it, and Mapster opens up quite a few options. Here are a few examples: Natural Earth (see map) Albers (see map) Equal Earth (see map) Equirectangular (see map) […]
