Map Search and Wifi Hotspots
Just a quick post to let you know about a couple of new things that have been added to the site in the last few days…
Another new search feature has been added to the site — map search allows you to just pan and zoom around the map of Edinburgh and every time you move, the markers will reload (ajaxtastically) showing the businesses in the current map view. This works best if you’re zoomed in quite far, so to keep it working nice and quick we’ve limited it to 15 markers on screen at once. If there are more than 15 businesses in the current view, the ones nearest the middle of the map are shown. By default, the map will show all businesses, but you can enter a search term to filter the results.
We’ve also added some extra tags for cafes, bars and restaurants in Edinburgh that have wifi and free wifi. So you can now search for things like “wifi pub” near “jeffrey street” (try it) or “free wifi” near “EH3 7BR” (try it). If you know of any other businesses offering wifi and/or free wifi, you can update the site yourself by logging in and editing a listing. To mark a business as having wifi, add the tag “wifi” to the tag list at the bottom of the edit business page. If the wifi is provided free of charge, add the tag “freewifi” as well.
Props to Richard Cross for providing the bulk of the data to enable this useful new feature.
Enjoy!
