Improved SVG Map Search in Brandkit

Some of our customers use a Map Search in their Brand Portal.

We’ve just made some improvements to the feature - so it’s worth revisiting how a map based search can help users find regional or destination based content.

Map Search Widget

If you have an existing Map Search in your Brand Portal, like our friends at Visit Wales do, then your map will be automatically updated with improved performance.

If you haven’t seen these before, then here’s a quick refresher.

A Map Search is simply a section/widget we add to any of your Brand Portal pages (typically the home page) that provides an interactive map view of your country, destination or even the whole world. Clicking on a map region links to a search for that Region tag.

For example in the image above (from the Visit Wales Brandkit, the Snowdonia region is hovered, highlighting the region and the region name in the list on the left in red. Clicking either will start a search for “Snowdonia”.

Nice.

Customers already using Map Search include:

• Tourism New Zealand
• Visit Scotland (Note this is a private account)
• Great South

To set this up for your Brandkit you just need to provide us with an SVG image of your region, country etc with a list of clickable locations, and there be a small fee for us to set it up for you.

The advantage of using an SVG here is that you can have your designers create a style that you like - and we can just wire it up to search.And for users it’s a nice way to find images based on a visual location, especially if they don’t know your place names.

Contact us if you’d like to add Map Search to your Brand Portal.