We were working an a store locator for one of our customers recently, and we decided to make a package with all the necessary functionalities a simple store locator.
The results are these features:
– Uses the latest Google Maps API (version 3). The new Google Maps API doesn’t required any API key anymore.
– Search all the location by any address, postal code, city, country. It take any address you give to it, geocode it, then returns the results.
– You can have as many category filters as you want. So you can have different types of gas stations, different types of shcools etc.
– Supports images that you can define per location, or per location category. This image can be the logo of the stores for example.
– Supports a side menu with the list of all the locations found. The side menu can also display a pagination.
– The pagination uses AJAX calls so your users never have to reload the page when going through the locations returned.
You can check our demo on this page: http://yougapi.com/products/simple_store_locator/