WPAdverts Maps and Locations Addon v1.6.1

WPAdverts – Maps and Locations Addon GPL Overview:

Put the power of MAPS on your classifieds!

We’ve learned that one of the biggest challenges your classifieds business will face is locations…

Why? Well it’s surprising how often people:

• Think faraway places are close by, or that nearby places are far, far away..
• Don’t actually know their nearby locations by name
• Have NO idea about routes or directions
• Don’t know the correct spelling!

And yet they DO have a very strong preference for the areas or distance they’re willing to look!

Also, some names are very common. There are 38 places in America called Arlington, 33 places called Springfield, and 88 different Washingtons, so you can see the potential problem!

Maps and Locations (MAL) completely solves ALL location issues. It allows hierarchical lists of locations (for example Country > State > City) both when creating an Ad AND when searching by location.

This means no more misspelled location names and always accurate search results for visitors. Your result is a more user-friendly, professional website that both sellers and buyers love to use!

Your choice: Google Maps (Paid) or Open Street Maps (Free)

Webmasters using Google’s Maps API were shocked in 2018 when Google declared it was no longer free to use Google maps on your own website.

Happily it does remain quite affordable, and Maps and Locations is optimized to reduce your API usage and costs.

Google gives you $200 in credit each month for free, and for many websites, using our crafty and careful optimization to reduce ‘calls’ to the API, the free credit is probably enough. Note that Google also offers – and charges for – their “AutoComplete” API. You can see more about the Maps API and AutoComplete API on our blog here.