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Choosing What Visitors Can Do on Your Map

Written by Melinda Haughey

This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.

Two sections of the map editor control what visitors can do: Viewer actions (map-wide abilities) and Point Card → Actions (the buttons on each place's card). Everything is a switch — flip on what fits your map, and the live preview shows exactly what visitors will get.

Map-Wide Abilities (Viewer Actions)

  • Allow users to share map — the share button on the map itself.

  • Show add-a-place form — lets visitors suggest places (see Collecting Places From Your Community).

  • Allow users to plan a route — visitors can string places into a route.

  • Allow users to send map to their phone from desktop — a quick handoff for people browsing on a computer.

  • Allow users to see map stats — shows view counts and place counts in the map's About panel.

  • Map comments — a comment wall on the map, with your own section title and instructions, plus reply and reaction switches (available on Pro).

Buttons on Each Place's Card (Point Card → Actions)

  • Get directions — shown inline with the address or as a button, with a default travel mode (drive, walk, bike, or transit).

  • Upvotes — a little love button; rename it to anything ("Want to go!") and choose whether to show the count.

  • Mark as visited — visitors check places off as they go. You can set the labels, swap the marker for visited places, and add a "visited" filter so people can see what's left.

  • Save — visitors bookmark favorites, which land on their personal My Places page. Custom labels, an optional saved marker, and a "saved" filter are all available.

  • Share — a share button for the individual place.

  • Point comments — reviews on each place (the section is titled "Reviews" by default; available on Pro).

A good rule of thumb: turn on only what serves the map's purpose. A vendor map might want just directions and save; a bucket-list trail map shines with visited, upvotes, and comments.

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