I’ve been pretty busy over the past week or so, and it’s brought with it a host of new features that people have asked for, and some that people didn’t, but I thought would improve the experience. I’ll go over them. Note:Â Some of these are experimental and might be going away if they don’t see much usage.
Persistent PadMapper: About a week ago, I added persistence to the state of PadMapper, which meant that if you left the page and then came back, it would look the way it did when you left, filters and all. However, due to the way it was done, it would go back to blank once you quit your browser (or let too much time pass). I’ve fixed this, so the state of everything (favorites list, grayed markers, filter settings) should last about 30 days, or until you clear your cookies, whichever comes first. Cookies are required in order for this to work.
Linking to the current view/filters, Embeddable PadMapper: There is now a “Link/Embed” link in the link bar. If you select it, it will present you with a link that will bring your friends to the current view of PadMapper (including the current filter settings). This is great for coordinating with roommates. It doesn’t let people see your favorites list, though… you’ll have to send them a favs list share URL for that (save the favorites list, send the URL that comes in the email).
The Link/Embed screen also presents you with HTML code that lets you embed a small version of the current view of PadMapper on one of your sites. If you’re a realtor/broker and you’d like an embeddable version of PadMapper with just your listings shown, contact me at padmapper@gmail.com – this has been available for a while for you all.
Facebook Listing Sharing: On the bottom of the preview bubbles, you’ll see a little FBook logo and a link that will let you share any listing on Facebook, or send it to someone as part of a message.
A bunch of other tweaks… Most of the things done aren’t deserving of their own mention, as they’re mostly polish/small bug fixes.
Major changes often introduce a few bugs here and there. If you find any issues, please don’t hesitate to contact me at padmapper@gmail.com so that I can start working on fixing them.
Thanks for the consistent updates. The site is awesome and this persistent state works great. Just what I needed.
Great, glad it works for you and helps!
Great features, thanks for the hard work!