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Morena LocalMaps Enthusiasts!

We are pleased to present you the beta version of our new LocalMaps v3.1! The new beta is packed with new features and enhancements that will take your mapping experience to the next level. Given below are some highlights in general.

🔍Enhanced UX and UI: The New LocalMaps design is based on Esri’s Calcite design system, giving users a seamless experience and improved accessibility options. v3.1 Viewer comes with a fresh, modern interface built on Esri’s Experience Builder. With the mobile-friendly design, the end user can access all the content and information from LocalMaps on the go from their mobile!

🛠Built with the latest architecture and framework: We have completely rebuilt the backend of v3.1 to take advantage of the performance, reliability, and security enhancements that modern frameworks provide. We’ve also focused on performance and reliability in the front end, leveraging the new Maps SDK for JavaScript v4 to decrease load times, allow advanced data display, and enhance interaction.

🗺Viewer widgets: New Viewer comes with the following widgets allowing the users to view, analyse and present data effectively.

• Add data
• Bookmark
• Basemap
• Elevation profile
• Draw/measure (re-vamped)
• Legend
• Layer list
• Print
• Share (with simplified link options)
• Save (with enhanced sharing of saved maps)
• Switch Map

✍️Draw/Measure Widget: Our revamped Draw/Measure Widget allows you to draw on the map and measure distances and areas, making it easier than ever to interact with your maps. This new design is based on direct feedback from our users. 

👩‍💻Social Logins: We’ve simplified the process of setting up social logins, so that you can allow your end users to sign in quickly and securely using Google, Facebook, or Microsoft accounts. We now allow your users to manage and delete their personal data through the new profile settings interface. And we have enhanced the functionality allowing users save and share their maps drawings, and favourite items.

🌟Viewer functionalities: We’ve enhanced both the admin setup interface, and the results display of Feature queries to help your users explore related data and help you integrate with other business systems. We’ve also improved support for Arcade expressions to allow you to display interactive, informative information popups.

🖌Customisable Themes: As an administrator, you can quickly tailor the look and feel of LocalMaps with our new preset theme options or extensively customise them to meet your organisation's brand and styling guidelines. One thing we hope you’ll love is our support for Google fonts for configuring typefaces for your Gallery and Viewer.

Here is the link to the new beta instance - demos.localmaps.co.nz/demo1/gallery (best viewed through Chrome and Edge)

Here is the link to the new documentation site -documentation.localmaps.co.nz

⏩Please note that this is a beta version. While we've worked hard to ensure a smooth user experience, you may encounter some bugs or issues. We see this as an opportunity to improve and we would greatly appreciate your help in this process. Select, Reporting and Data sources are still being refined and developed which will be made available in coming months. 

➕Feedback Button: We’ve added a new Feedback Button for you to share your thoughts and suggestions directly with us. As community members, your feedback will be invaluable in helping us refine and improve the application. Alternatively, if it is an idea, add on our page here for wider discussion. 

We hope this will give you an opportunity to experience the new version and pass on your feedback. If you have any questions meanwhile, please let us know through [email protected]. 

Happy exploring beta v3.1 🌟

Best regards,

LocalMaps Team | Eagle Technology

LocalMaps v3x - Updates on some exciting developments and upcoming launch timelines.

Kia Ora LocalMaps community,

We are excited to announce an upcoming webinar that we believe will be of great interest to you all!

Date: 30th of November, Time: 11AM, Topic: What's new in LocalMaps

This is a fantastic opportunity to look at the new LocalMaps admin panel that is being developed on and pass on your feedback. While not every feature is not in there yet, this will give you a glimpse of overall structure and experience. The webinar will include a presentation, demo followed by a Q&A session where you can ask any questions you might have to the LocalMaps team.

Please register through this link - What's new in Localmaps if you haven't yet and mark your calendars!

Looking forward to see you all there!

Best Regards,

LocalMaps team

Join us (LocalMaps team) for a morning of delicious food and great company of users across the country.

It’s here! We are very excited to share that the new LocalMaps Viewer 3.x in Experience Builder is available today.

Nga hararei koa!

As we round off 2022, we would like to firstly thank all you LocalMappers out there for another great year – your feedback and support has helped us improve LocalMaps and hopefully gets you excited about the things coming very soon. To celebrate the festive season we thought we would share some important info and a few sneak peeks...

Thanks to those that came along to the Utilizing LocalMaps Webinar this week! One thing we talked about (and showed a sneak peak of) was the Experience Builder Viewer we are building and we would love to know what you think about some specific areas we are developing! Check out this blog to learn more about how to have your say and perhaps even put your organisation forward for some early access...

Thanks for coming to talk to us at the NZEUC 2022! Off the back of the LG session we had a good few chats with you all about our v3.0 first release and the widgets that will be coming out in that version. You spoke and we listened soooo Switch Map has squeezed itself into the first cab off the rank. 

The first taste of LocalMaps 3.x is now available - the Gallery 3.x (beta). Learn a bit more about the Gallery, key features and how to get your hands on it in this post.

Take a sneak peek at the first cab of the rank for LocalMaps Version 3.x – the New Beta Gallery. Check out this post to get more info on when the Beta is available and key dates to pop in your diaries. Thanks to all that submitted to our survey feedback form, posted on Geonet and were involved in various other consultations. You have helped us understand your workflows to build a better LocalMaps for everyone.