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What is SmallMap™? SmallMap is a small business shareware that helps Web Publishers present community directory and any local maps on the Web. You can customize it for towns, parks, campuses, clubs -- any cluster of local businesses, services, and non-business listings. Although called "SmallMap," you are free to exclude map images, and only make use of the database functions. As a simple database presentation shareware, you can even use it to present non-geographical articles, such as books, music, games, or rental properties, on the Internet.
If you have already compiled a database of a few hundred neighborhood shops, services, or members, you can use SmallMap to quickly publish a Web directory. You have the option to include local map images. Further, each listing with a full address can be automatically linked to the major "map and direction" Websites. SmallMap is a Web publishing tool that complements and reinforces the major search engines and client Websites. It highlights these local businesses and services in a centralized location, in a format you the Web publisher controls. Visitors to your Website will then be able to browse, sort, search through your community listings. They will find local businesses or neighborhood shops, using text, name, address, and other descriptive information. They can navigate around any local map segments. Web publishers may download this Web application and try it without a charge, provided you have read and agreed to SmallMap Software License Agreement. Within 90 days of publishing your adapted SmallMap on a publicly accessible Website, you agree to register your use with SmallMap.com. Registration cost is US$100. You will require the minimal Web hosting package and server storage space because SmallMap is a light-weight, JavaScript-driven program, powered by the end user's browser.
Total file storage required on your Web server may range from 300kB to 5MB, depending on the size of any map images. SmallMap does not require PHP, PERL, CGI, JAVA, Active-X, MySQL or other database engines. Read product information about SmallMap. |
How To ... If you are the end user (Web visitor) looking to find local shops, businesses, or listings pulished on a Website using SmallMap, you will find quick help information. Click "Show Help" in the right column of the SmallMap local directory page to see Quick Help. The instruction is also here at this Quick Help page. More details are at SmallMap Manual Chapter 1: From the Perspective of the End Users. If you are the Web publisher who wishes to take advantage of SmallMap, you must start with an existing database of local shops, names, places of interest, or any non-geographical articles to list in a directory. See Manual Chapter 2: What a Web Publisher Needs Before Getting Started. Second, you download a package of templates and tools from our Download Page. See Manual Chapter 3: Downloading Template and Preparing Folders. Third, you convert your database into a JavaScript file (file extension ".js"), using one of two alternative tools provided in the downloaded package. Be careful not to include any private or confidential data, as JavaScript files are transparent and cannot be encrypted. See Manual Chapter 4: Customizing Your Mini Database "SmallMap.js". Fourth, customize a section of the sample/template file "index.htm", which contains the entire SmallMap program. You set your contact information, any map parameters, and preferences regarding initial colors, looks, etc. See Manual Chapter 5: Customizing the Main Program File "index.htm". Fifth, and optionally if you have a map image of your community, you may create a shrunken "index map", and slice the large map into smaller pieces for visitors to zoom in and navigate around. See Manual Chapter 6: Preparing Map Images and Customer Images.
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1. Sample Town - This is a fictitious town's directory and "map," a demonstration, and a template containing the latest SmallMap codes and scripts. To illustrate the capability to link to external map and direction Websites, we have input the addresses of actual public places under the Aquarium, Arboretum, and Museum categories. It uses single-grid, PNG-formatted, map images for zoomed-in view. Click for an alternative color scheme. 2. S2BJ - A real-life commercial area with a real map: Sungаi Duа and Bukit Jаmbul, Pеnаng, MaIаysiа. It makes use of 3-grid-by-3-grid GIF subdivided map images. Promotions Recent News |