Google Maps often display local business listings. When you are searching for local businesses, this can be a useful feature. At other times, however, the business pointers can clutter the map, or worst show competitor’s business on your map!
For example, in the following map of a block around our offices, several businesses are listed, such as one Indian and one Mexican restaurant. If you are a paid subscriber, ZeeMaps will allow you to remove these business listings from your map.
Use the Map -> Settings menu to get the Map Settings page, and then select the Map Display tab to change the map display settings.
Within that, check the box that says “Remove local business listings from map”:
Once you have set this checkbox, now if you go back to the map, the local businesses will no longer show:
The business listings will not show on your map as long as you have signed-up for one of our paid plans.
Category: Map Types
Where did the Housing, Crime, and IP Maps go?
We are beginning to phase out specialized maps for Housing, IP, and Crime. You will notice that the “Create Map” dialog does not contain a “Map Type” option anymore, and you cannot create a Crime, Housing or IP map from the home page.
If you still need to create one of these types of maps, you can use the “Create Map” dialog in the “My Maps” page. Please note that we will be reducing support for these types of maps, so if you can, start using the “Regular” maps.
Let us know if this is a major inconvenience.
Enable Scroll Wheel Zoom and MouseOver for Information Bubble
We have added a couple of new features to ZeeMaps:
- Enable scroll-wheel zoom, and
- Mouse-over to open information bubble for markers.
These features are not enabled by default. To enable them, use the Settings → Display or the Settings → Markers menu items.
