SHARE YOUR IDEAS

I think the ability to display a Google map with push-pins showing client locations is a great idea.

Logically the map would display whatever contacts were in a look-up / Group, so a Google Map tab in Groups would be the best place to show it. Although, with a lot of contacts, perhaps a new window would provide more screen space.

The contacts in any group would then be shown geograpically on a map.

Fantastic.

Jeff

First off - I'm a fan of this idea and would love to see it in a tab the groups detail view.  

When I was looking into this before one of the struggles is that popular maps (like Google maps) require geocoded locations for pushpins (lat/log) but we store "structured addresses" per record in ACT!.  

That means we'll need to either:

1.  Start storing the geocodes for each address we store

OR

2.  Try to push a list of structured addresses on the fly to retrieve geocodes then apply to a map mashup.

I'm thinking a feature that retrieves the geocode of an address whenever you enter or alter an address  in ACT! and stores the geocoded coordinates - that should be useful.