TOPIC: Add hotspots to more than one category

hello:

I used to use a product "gmaps" and it allowed me to associate my hotspots with different maps/categories. This way I could have a master category for example "All Restaurants" and then have different dining areas like "downtown" "uptown" etc.

When they use "All Restaurants" they'd see a superset of hotspots (but not necessarily all the hotspots).

Is this possible currently? Is this on the roadmap?

Thanks...

Hey Ken,
This is currently not possible and is not on the roadmap. We actually have a slightly different goals. There was a discussion here on the forum(you can search for it) where I've explained that for me - the more important part would be to make a better search for hotspots. Because - I don't want to move around 2000 locations in your restaurants area. I'm most of the time searching for something specific - I'll type a keyword.

Kind regards,
Daniel

The power of google maps is the visual nature, people know a neighborhood and can see what's there. How does your searching approach allow people to SEE that a business is near where they work or live?

With assigning hotspots to multiple categories, I can have a hotspots show up in "your neighborhood" category map while also having them show up in "restaurants", "galleries" or "shops" category maps as well.

Or I can have a category map "Mexican Restaurants" and assign all of those restaurants to that map view.

That could be solved with a new feature: 'NEAR ME'.

We can setup the distance in the backend settings, and once the visitor hits that button (NEAR ME), they will see all the business around his actual position as far as the value we established in the backend settings before.

About the different kind of restaurant in the category 'restaurants'. We can just assign different markers to the different establishments inside the same category, and use a generic marker for that category. If the establishment is not using any icon, then it will grab the generic one from the category.

Definitely I am agree with you Daniel, it's better search for whatever I am looking for than been trying to find the right category.

Any establishment can have their own keywords, and once you search using those keywords, that establishment will pop up on the map. A Mexican Restaurant will be attached to the keywords 'mexican mejico mexico cuisine taco', and if someone is searching for a mexican restaurant using the keywords 'mexican restaurant', all mexican restaurants will be on the map.

The "Near Me" is interesting, hopefully that can be expanded to be just the concept of "near" with "me" (current location) just one parameter. This way you can do near "location" and create a linkable (database storable) location that can be passed to the "near" function call.