Hotspots Pro

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Introduction

Street Maps, Map Directions, Visitor Maps, Maps & Weather, Maps & Locations

Bring the power of Google Maps to your site!

Hotspots is a highly configurable Google Maps marker manager released for Joomla! developed by compojoom. HotSpots supports multiple & nested categories with different icons for your locations (markers). How do you know if HotSpots is good for you. Visit our demo and see the flexibility how to show multiple locations for your office, or many locations for your directory for your city site. See how you can bring your site to the next level.

Who can use Hotspots. Everyone → Endless possibilities:

Offices with multiple locations on contact page - Show where you are located and give the power to the users to find you.
City directory site - Gives the ability to show all your government locations, parks, and more
Hotel sites - Share many restraints, theaters, stores and so much more that is around you giving your clients more information before they check in.
And more...

Features:
- multiple images upload per location with gallery display
- able to handle 100k or 1M locations thanks to custom tiles + server side boundary method (check our demo we have 90k locations!)
- styled maps support
- weather, traffic, transit, bicycle, panoramio layers
- KML support
- Import markers from KML files
- Custom fields (currently text & select)
- Supports JomSocial and Community Builder  
- You can show the Jomsocial & community Builder users on a map
- K2 integration - ability to show items on the map + show a map under the k2 item
- Matukio integration - ability to show your events on a map
- Individual categories with custom marker icons on the map 
- Each marker has an individual description, this can be added with or without a picture  (each marker can have custom icon & link to com_content, k2, sobiPro)
- Frontend marker adding (as option) with a drag & drop marker & geolocation support! 
- Detail page for every single marker 
- Give your users the ability to create route planing 
- Mailing of current map 
- RSS feed  Sobi2 Data Import 
- Ajax based, no reloading of the map needed 
- 500 sample marker icons included to give you the ability to create any marker

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Not bad, but zero releases...

yamada (25).
Posted on 04 April 2012

My 3 star rating is based on the following: For a hotspot thing the component is good,some minor bugs, but there are things i dont like and thats the frequency of updates offered by the author. He doesnt release bugfix versions, or additional functionality...nothing. If he stays on this speed you get 1 update/release per year. This has been discussed on his forum and its clear that customers pay the price for the time he needs to learn things and reading books. Personally I think thats a big no no. His view is to release stable versions. But nothing is really that stable. Because of the variety of users and their situations more releases would be in his best interest. As for support, well ive seen worse but already seen topics of 6 days old not answered, and thats in the customer forum. And it does happen a lot he doesnt follow replies from customers so you end up with a non answered question. So is it a good buy ? Probably yes...the author is a nice guy but he should step up a little bit. However, be aware of 1 release per payment, and support when he's not reading and learning.

Owner's reply: Hi Yamada,

Yes, the last stable version was released in August, but this should actually speak about the stability of that release. You should also note that there have been several development releases released to all subscribers to test and discuss the progress of the component.

About the forum threads not answered - I would ask all of the JED users to visit our forum and to see for themselves if we answer support requests or not. Let me put a little bit of statistics, because stats never lie: There are total of 2527 topics of which 118 don't have a reply - and if someone want to examine closely - you can see that 99% of those 118 topics are in the "Wish list" category or code contributions from other users. + 99% of those are older than 3 years.

Kind regards,
Daniel

Simply perfect

chady rizk (1).
Posted on 06 March 2012

If I have the choice to choose more than excellent i would never hesitate.

Daniel with his support is a great man.He did me a wonderful favor and provided a fast ,reliable and efficient support.

The extensions worked perfectly and smoothly and the output is perfect .

Thank you compojoom and keep it high.

Fantastic & Super Fast Support

Samuele Bonzio (1).
Posted on 06 March 2012

This application is fantastic!

Works like a charm!

At the beginning I have a problem but in 10 minutes Daniel (the support) have resolve it!

Really really really great!!!

Very powerfull tool

Giuseppe Cattaneo (2).
Posted on 06 March 2012

It's exactely what i was looking for.

It allow to create many categories of spots in the same map, easy to configure and Immediately online.

The support is very very good. fast and friendly!

Great Extension, Top Class Support

Vincent Walshe (1).
Posted on 16 December 2011

Extension initially installed easily and worked well, but Joomla got a little screwed up and caused some problems. I contacted Daniel on support and he did not rest until the problem was resolved. Top class support, couldn't recommend highly enough.

Extension now working perfectly and very well.

Great Component + Support

Saurabh Shah (3).
Posted on 27 November 2011

This is one of the Excellent Maps component i have used till now. I had few issues after installing the component and after contacting developer it got resolved within few mins. Exellent support i would say.

I have found some bugs and solved it too. Posting fixes here it may help to solve others as well.

1) Links were not able to put into description and was breaking everything

Solution :

Go into phpmyadmin-> go to hotspots_marker table -> click on structure -> find the description field and change it with Text or medium text

2) Wanted to show all hotpots from all category by default. I needed hack.

Solution:

https://compojoom.com/forum/27-hotspots/52-newbie-area/10025-show-all-categories/icons-on-the-map-by-default?p=1#p13370

3) Apply button on hotspot was not working

Solution :

go to administraotr/comopnents/com_hotspots/controllers/hotspots

line 189

switch ($this->_task) {

change it to

switch (JRequest::getCmd('task')) {

The Best of it kind

Ivan Forcada Quezada (6).
Posted on 24 November 2011

This is the best component of it kind, after trying many others, I am very happy with this one

And support is very fast

Regards

Excellent

Jools (7).
Posted on 19 November 2011

At first I thought the cost of this component was an issue, but then after experiencing the support and the features this component has I can say that it's worth every penny.

Keep up the good work Daniel......

Great Map Component

daimyo (1).
Posted on 08 November 2011

This is the component I needed for my website. easy to install and a lot of features. Great support.

Thanks Daniel (developper) for your great support

Romuald

Greatest Map mod ever

Romuald Touitou (2).
Posted on 08 November 2011

Great

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Version:: 6.0.13
Developer:: compojoom
Last updated:: Jan 01 2025
5 months ago
Date added:: Sep 08 2009
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Paid download
Related extension :: Hotspots Core
Includes:: c m p
Compatibility:: J3 J4 J5 (b/c plugin)

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