Introducing the Custom Map Widget
Many of you have been asking for a way to visualise anything with a geographic element including the location of current site visitors or dispatch addresses for recent orders on your dashboard, and now you can.
If you're feeling creative you can knock out a script to connect to the increasing number of location aware web services with APIs and see location data side-by-side with your key business metrics on your Geckoboard status board.
We're starting with a custom widget only but many existing integrations will have a map widget added soon, stay tuned for further updates.
Check out a live map widget here.
Version 1 of the map widget accepts:
- Lat, long coordinates
- IP addresses
- Host names
It renders the location of each point on a beautiful map which updates frequently. We even have some new widget sizes for these maps so you can really show it off.
We're currently testing further input types such as city and postal codes and I expect these to drop very shortly. In the meantime, check out the documentation in our support forum and get started on your own geo-feed!
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