Tweaking and testing new features and enhancements

We are currently in the final testing and tweaking phase for the following new features and enhancements:

• Closest Five
• Massive improvements to Follow Me
• Full screen StreetView
• New Google Maps widget set

Watch this space for a launch announcement and more details about what these new features mean…

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New features added 21st July 2015 – Smart phone & tablet SatNav integration

We’ve just rolled out a few improvements, new features and bug-fixes…

SatNav integration for smart-phones and tablets is the main new feature, but there have been other improvements as well – see below for details.

For all platforms:

• Fixed a long standing bug where buttons disappeared from info bubbles after editing a location.
• Changes to the wording on the navigation button in the info bubble (now reads ‘Show Route’ to show the route on the map, then ‘Directions’ to show the text directions.
• Clicking the ‘share’ icon in an info bubble when in Street View now shares the Street View rather than the map view of that parking location.
• When viewing a Street View, the browser location bar will display an address which will link directly to that Street View – so you can share the exact view you are looking at simply by copying the address bar contents.

For desktop PC / Mac:

• Info bubbles now contain a QR code link that will display a QR code for that parking location. Scanning the code with a smart-phone or tablet will give you the option of opening your SatNav application pre-loaded with that parking location as the destination.

For smart-phone and tablet:

• Info bubbles now contain a QR code link that will display a QR code for that parking location. Scanning the code with another smart-phone or tablet will give you the option of opening your SatNav application pre-loaded with that parking location as the destination. Alternatively, tapping the QR code will also attempt to open the SatNav in the same way.
• A button has been added to the top of the route directions view that will attempt to open the SatNav app on your device with the parking location pre-loaded as the destination.

The Web-API has been updated to include the new Street View linking functionality as well – so if you run a review site or a business with disabled / handicap parking nearby, feel free to link to the BlueBadgeParking.com Street View of the location to give your visitors an alternative view of the parking available.

We’ve just enhanced our StreetView…

We’ve just added a couple of enhancements to StreetView on BlueBadgeParking.com as follows:

• StreetView is now available from both the right-click menu and a marker’s op-up Info Window.
• When in StreetView you can now see (and interact with) a marker’s Info Window.

This applies to existing location markers and also when adding a new location – making it even easier and quicker to confirm the position of the new location when adding.