A map that puts your shopping area on the map
Town-centre managers and business associations want to show visitors what their area offers - every shop, café and facility, not only the big names.
Ideal for: Shops & boutiquesCafés & terracesCar parks & bike parkingEvents in the areaServices & trades
Short answer
- An area map puts every business in your town centre on one map in your own branding, instead of drowning in everything around it.
- Import every unit from a CSV file or paste the rows straight from Excel; your own columns become the fields per location.
- When a unit changes hands you edit one location and the map on your site is current immediately - no reprint.
- Visitors filter for shops, food, services or parking.
- On Free you publish through a permanent link; embedding and a downloadable Studio QR start on Basic, a custom domain is Premium, and branding removal is Custom.
At this scale
How a map keeps thousands of addresses current
Our deposit-return map is not a shopping area, but it does show what happens when thousands of addresses sit on one map: still quick to search, and editable point by point without touching the rest.
- 8,328 addresses in two categories the visitor switches on or off.
- Points cluster automatically until you zoom into a street.
- Every point has its own description.
- The same import: one file with every address, no per-unit handiwork.
What you get
Once you build an area map in localthings, this comes with it as standard:
CSV and JSON import
Add a complete dataset in one go.
Category and date filters
Filter by topic, or by today, this weekend or this month.
Embed on your own website
Place the interactive map as an iframe in a page or an article.
yourwebsite.com/map
Also worth a look
Facilities & resources
Per location, what is possible, allowed and open, down to the detail.