First impressions matter. Therefore, Mapme lets you customize how your map displays when your users open the map.
You can customize the map home display of:
- the content panel
- the basemap view (the map itself, learn more)
Your selection for the content panel display depends on your use case and your audience. For example, if you are embedding the map in a small area, we recommend hiding the content panel on large screens and showing half of the map and half of the content panel on mobile devices.
How to customize the map content panel display
For the content panel display, you can easily select your preferences for desktop and mobile screens using the editor settings located on the map home.
If you choose to hide the content panel, it will expand as soon as the user clicks on a marker.
Note that if you embedded your map and the embed URL includes the “showinfo” parameter, the editor setting will not take effect. You will need to remove the “showinfo” parameter from the URL.
Settings available on desktop (large screens)
Show content panel (default)
Hide content panel
Settings available on mobile devices (small screens)
Show content panel
Half/Half (default)
Minimized Content Panel
Override the editor setting
It is possible to override the editor setting using a URL query string parameter. This can be useful for example if you want to embed the map in a website and in a mobile app and want to different behavior for each type of map embed.
Here the different options available as URL query string parameters:
Always Show
Hide on mobile
Hide on Desktop
Always Hide
showinfo=all
showinfo=landscape
showinfo=portrait
showinfo=none
The content panel is always visible when loading the map. This is the default.
The content panel is only visible in landscape mode, typically desktop or laptop. It will not appear on mobile devices.
The content panel is only visible in portrait mode, typically mobile devices. It will not appear on desktop or laptops.
The content panel is always hidden when loading the map.
Here are some examples:
For the map URL – https://story.mapme.com/14049bfd-a81c-4a5f-8936-93d6be146ac0?showinfo=none
For a category URL, – https://viewer.mapme.com/de6ea422-5787-49bd-93c5-b2b30d65a0bc/locations?categories=%255B%257B%2522id%2522%3A%2522e4ff3a1e-7d76-479e-aa53-b6a9bb06bcb9%2522%257D%255D&showinfo=none
Check this example of a map embed with the content panel hidden on map load.