📍 New Plugin: Beautiful Maps - Mapbox

[milanic2b]

No problem and thank you for your plugin. Have a nice day

[zico.gaeffke]

Hey Alex - any update on a hover state when a mouse scrolls over a marker?

[alexcooney5]

Hey @zico.gaeffke, does this cover what you’re looking for?

New Plugin: Beautiful Maps - Mapbox

New events/exposed states for marker hover - August-24 updates Just released a new version (1.16.0) of the Beautiful Maps - Mapbox plugin that lets you trigger actions when a marker is hovered! [Mapbox - Marker Hover] In the above example, I’m showing an alert whenever a marker is hovered. You can see this in the ‘Triggering a workflow when a marker is hovered’ section of the demo app (editor link is here). The plugin now has the following new events: Mapbox Marker is Hovered Mapbox Marker…

[alexcooney5]

New action: Clear GeoJSON from Map - September-24 update
Just released a new version of the Beautiful Maps - Mapbox plugin that allows you to clear any existing GeoJSON shapes (polygons/lines/points) on a map:

New action

• Clear GeoJSON Mapbox Map

You can view the ‘Drawing on a Map and saving coordinates’ section of the demo app to see the workflows in action (editor is public).

Any questions just let me know

[zico.gaeffke]

Hey @alexcooney5 - Not particularly - I meant more the icon changing. Say you had a marker with white outlines, as you hovered over it, you could have a “hover state” that swapped the icon to one with black outlines.

[alexcooney5]

Ah thanks for clarifying @zico.gaeffke

I’m afraid this is a bit of a tricky feature to implement. I may be able carve out some time to do a deeper dive on it in a few weeks, but I can’t promise when, or even if, I’ll be able to deliver it.

Sorry about that - I’ve quite a few other plugins that also have outstanding feature requests and I need to prioritise where I can. Hope you understood where I’m coming from

[zico.gaeffke]

Definitely understand you’re stretched. However, I do want to emphasize the importance of this feedback - a clicked state, and hover state, on markers make for a great user experience, particularly when there are clusters of markers surrounding one another.

Perhaps an alternative might be to assign names to a marker?

For instance, my golf app might have the golf course name next to the course marker, and on hover, the text - styled with a text or button style - could change rather than the marker itself. That’s how Google Maps does it.

[alexcooney5]

Understood @zico.gaeffke and I appreciate this would be a very useful feature for your app (and likely other users too). Thank you for the feedback.

Leave it with me and I’ll see what I can do over the next few weeks.

[alexcooney5]

Get length of lines drawn on Map - September-24 update
Just released a new version of the plugin that allows you to get the length (in meters) of lines drawn on the map:

New exposed states

• All Lines Length Drawn (Meters)
• Last Line Drawn Length (Meters)

You can see the workflows behind the above example in the plugin’s demo app (editor is public).

Any questions just let me know

[jolenowski]

Hi! Just wanted to +1 the above request regarding the ability of having the map marker change styles/color when it’s hovered. Definitely understand their could be other priorities though

[alexcooney5]

Thanks for the feedback @jolenowski. I’ve actually made some good progress on this, but it’s the last 10% that’s proving tricky (as is always the case!).

Hoping to push an update out in the next week or two.

cc @zico.gaeffke

[jolenowski]

Thanks Alex! I appreciate it! One note as well and I don’t know if it’s something I’m doing on my end and if there’s already an easy fix but when I hover over the map marker the cursor doesn’t change into a cursor that is the “clickable” cursor where it’s the thumb and pointer finger. It’s the cursor you see when you make a bubble element “clickable”.

[alexcooney5]

Noted @jolenowski. I probably won’t be releasing this feature in the next update, but it has been requested before so I’ll try and get around to it in the near future.

Thanks for the feedback!

[alexcooney5]

Change Marker Icon on Hover - September-24 update
Just released a new version of the Beautiful Maps - Mapbox plugin that allows you to change the marker icon when the marker is hovered!

You can change all markers to the same image when hovered:

OR you can change each marker to a different icon when hovered:

The key to adding hover mode is to use one of the two new ‘Hover Mode’ fields that come with the ‘Add List of Markers’ action:

The ‘Icon Image (Single)’ field accepts a single image, while the ‘Icon Image (Multiple)’ field accepts a list of images.

You can see an example of how to implement this in the ‘Change marker icon when hovered’ section of the demo app.

Any questions just let me know

cc @jolenowski @zico.gaeffke

[jolenowski]

This is perfect! Thank you so much!!!

[zico.gaeffke]

Brilliant Alex! thank you so much.

[alexcooney5]

Disable/enable directions and navigation controls via workflow actions - September-24 update
The Beautiful Maps - Mapbox plugin now allow you to enable/disable navigation and directions via workflow actions!

The latest version of the plugin has 4 new actions that make this possible:

• Add Directions Control
• Remove Directions Control
• Add Navigation Control
• Remove Navigation Control

Any questions just let me know

[alexcooney5]

Set roundness of Map - September-24 update
The new version (1.24.0) of the Beautiful Maps - Mapbox plugin has a ‘Roundness’ field on the Mapbox Map element that allows you to set the roundness of the map:

Any questions just let me know

[a.villabruna]

This is fantastic, thank you. It would be great to have this state also for a “Clicked Marker event”. For example, I have a map with many markers, and I want to highlight to the user which pin they are looking at.

[alexcooney5]

Hi @a.villabruna, this is the next feature I’m planning to add. It will likely be another few weeks before I get to it (away travelling at the moment), but it is absolutely on my radar