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New Content

Just a quick note to highlight a few recent changes to the new Minimap website. Firstly, I have added a new page to the Help section called Share Locations - please note the the Get Lat/Lng HTML addition will not be available until the 0.2.4 Firefox release (Flock 0.8.6). I have also added all the text for the Donors Club extra help pages, although I still need to add some images.

Finally a quick aside, Bruce over at geotagicons.com was kind enough to feature the Minimap Sidebar/geoFlock in the Developer Showcase section!

Geotag Icon

If you are into geotagging at all, please make sure you check out the geotag icons project. I’ll be looking to incorporate this into the next release of the Minimap Sidebar to replace the current geodiscovery icon.

Nice work Bruce!

Minimap Enhancements

I have been busy adding some significant enhacements to Minimap this last week and wanted to give everyone a heads up - it  should hit addons.mozilla.org in the next few days (Flock users - this version is currently in the flock extensions queue).

- Significant speed improvements: Did you ever try deleting multiple locations? Yikes it was SLOW! I have massively speeded it up, as well as slight speed improvements for adding locations (although I have no control over the google geocoder)
- Export KML, CSV, GPX or .minimap (a custom xml file for transferring placemarks between browsers): Either the complete address list or a selection can be exported in these four file formats, which are saved to a file locally. Now you can import into Google MyMaps using this exported kml file!
- Import KML, GPX or .minmap: Now you can import placemarks into your addresslist from local files in this format. CSV is a bit of a headache and one I might return to.
- Fine tune marker location: Ever added a marker and the address is not quite where you wanted it? In the edit properties dialog there is a small map with the marker which you can drag to refine.
- Improved options dialog (Firefox version only - many thanks Teo from Babelzilla)
- Microsoft Live maps links can now be dragged and dropped
- View location in Geody (Firefox only)

That will do for the time being :-)

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Minimap - 1 Month on

I released the Minimap Sidebar addon for Firefox just over a month ago, and so far am pleased with how it has gone. In this time I have had ~10000 downloads, and with the latest release I put on firefox.spatialviews.com today (0.1.4.7) some significant improvements to boot.

Enhancements include three modes; addresses, directions and kml, I have dramatically improved the Map Tab, and also tweaked the handling of kml links so that should behave a lot better.

Lets hope August continues in the same vain!

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Minimap Updated

Just a quick post to say for those that tried some early versions of the Minimap Sidebar, the latest version has vastly improved address handling such as the ability to specify the country geocoder used and it also offers up address suggestions if similar entries exist in Google’s address database.

Go get the latest version from the minimap site.

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