Hotspots
Version
3.3.1 (last update on Apr 30, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
59
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
Type
Date Added
8 September 2009
Hotspots is a highly configurable Google Maps marker manager released for Joomla!. HotSpots supports multiple 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:
- 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
- KML support
- Supports JomSocial and Community Builder
- 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
- Printing and 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
Images
I recently installed a different extension from HotSpots and wish I had tried HotSpots first. The support alone is worth the money and the extension so far is wonderful. I had a problem (or thought I did) and posted the error on their forum and within minutes Daniel came back with a simple solution. I am very impressed.
have only one word for this component, AMAZING... It is so easy to setup and use, and the street view options in the frontend is brilliant.
I had a few issue´s with the component (turns out to be my template), and the support was FAST, within 1 hour i had an answer.
perhaps the best money i have used on a joomla plugin...
I had a few issue´s with the component (turns out to be my template), and the support was FAST, within 1 hour i had an answer.
perhaps the best money i have used on a joomla plugin...
Needed this kind of extension for en camping website which we work at. This is a superb extension and easy to adept to your own style! It has the features we were looking for. And the support is very quick by the team.
If you ar elooking for a hotspot map this one you should consider.
Rgrds
John
If you ar elooking for a hotspot map this one you should consider.
Rgrds
John
I have been impressed from day one with the level of customer service provided with this component. I've needed to customize hotspots for our needs a handful of times, and the developer is always more than happy to guide me in the process (and I am NOT good with code!!). If you need an interactive map on your site, I'd recommend this one.
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
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.
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.
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!!!
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!!!
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!
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!
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.
Extension now working perfectly and very well.
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 ($this->_task) {
change it to
switch (JRequest::getCmd('task')) {
I have found some bugs and solved it too. Posting fixes here it may help to solve others as well.
1) Links were not able to put into description and was breaking everything
Solution :
Go into phpmyadmin-> go to hotspots_marker table -> click on structure -> find the description field and change it with Text or medium text
2) Wanted to show all hotpots from all category by default. I needed hack.
Solution:
https://compojoom.com/forum/27-hotspots/52-newbie-area/10025-show-all-categories/icons-on-the-map-by-default?p=1#p13370
3) Apply button on hotspot was not working
Solution :
go to administraotr/comopnents/com_hotspots/controllers/hotspots
line 189
switch ($this->_task) {
change it to
switch (JRequest::getCmd('task')) {
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