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What is MapTheWay
How is it working
I have installed MapTheWay in my website but nothing appears
I have installed MapTheWay in my website but the swf is empty
I have installed MapTheWay in my website but the map is empty
I have installed MapTheWay in my website but not all the spots appear
What is MapTheWay
MapTheWay is a Map Utility which allows you to publish google Map in 3D (like in Google Earth) with your own spots. See an exemple of Silver Mapper.
The particularity of MapTheWay is to provide you with enhanced Google Map possibilities without the need to develop any code or even know Google Map complexity.
If you have a basic need you can setup a map with just a list of postal addresses, pretty much the same way as it is done when you fill in a list of addresses in the Map Utilities
If you have a more sophisticated need then you can personalize the names of the spots, create custom markers, customize the welcome text, change the language, add links(*), add photos(*) and much more. (*) Versions Widget Premium and Silver Mapper only.
How is it Working
Mapdget - is a free Widget easy to use. You just need to create a map in Create Map, save it and you will be given a small piece of code to embed in your website. That’s it. You can customize your map and have access to enhanced features like adding links in the markers textbox, adding pictures to the markers, customize your graphics, etc ...
Silver Mapper gives respectively the same features as Mapidget, the difference being that you can install the software on your own server and integrate it with your application.
The advantage given by Silver Mapperis the level of customization of the product. If your website manage dynamic content you can generate XML (therefore Maps) on the fly, or have regular automatic batches to update your maps. You can as well design your own graphics. The products are delivered with PHP routines and utilities to help you do the XML generation. The XML structure is simple and described in the User’s Guide you can find here: MapTheWayUserGuide.pdf.
Mapdget and Silver Mapper allow you to customize your map with general information like the language, the Map welcome text, your logo and personalize your markers with graphics you may create if you wish so.
I have installed MapTheWay (Silver Mapper) on my server but it is not working
I have inserted a map in a web page but nothing appears
Make sure you have copied the program "MapTheWayEmbed.swf" in the same directory of your server where is located your webpage with the map.
A grey area appears in my web page but it is empty
Make sure that you have copied the file "mapthewayDir/mapthewaycontext.xml" in your server in the directory "mapthewayDir" located at the same level than your web page. e.g. if your web page is located at "www.mydomain.com/mypage.html" you should have a directory "www.mydomain.com/mapthewayDir" containing the file "www.mydomain.com/mapthewayDir/mapthewaycontext.xml".
The map appears in my web page but it is empty, there are no markers
Make sure that you have replaced the string myWebPage.xml in your webpage by the name of the XML file (e.g. NewNameIHaveDefinedForMyXML.xml)where are your markers and that you have uploaded your XML file in the directory "mapthewayDir" located at the same level than your web page. e.g. if your web page is located at "www.mydomain.com/mypage.html" you should have a directory "www.mydomain.com/mapthewayDir" containing the file "www.mydomain.com/mapthewayDir/NewNameIHaveDefinedForMyXML.xml".
The markers appears but not all of them
If you did not fill-in the lat and lng in the XML files of your markers it could happen that you overpass the Geo-Coding limit of Google Map. Meaning that Google Map has too many addresses to resolve at the same time. See the IMPORTANT NOTICE 1 in the User Guide MapTheWay to resolve this problem.
Another possibility is that you define a type which does not have marker icon equivalence. For each type you should have a file called marker[type value].png in the mapthewayDir. For exemple if you have a type="City" for a marker, then you should have a picture file called markerCity.png in your mapthewayDir. Be carefull that on Unix servers the file names are case sensitive and Markercity.png will not work.
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