 MapsAlive has a unique feature called Tour Preview. Tour Preview lets you see and try using your interactive map exactly as it will be when published. You can preview your tour from anywhere in the Tour Builder with just one click and go back to editing with another click. There's no faster or easier way to create and fine-tune an interactive map.
Publish to the Internet in Seconds
When you are ready for other people to see your work, click once more to publish — your interactive map is on the internet in seconds. Whenever you want to make changes, just go back to the Tour Builder, edit, preview, and publish again.
When you publish an interactive map for the first time, MapsAlive gives it a unique URL and shows it to you as a link. Click the link to run the published version of your interactive map without even leaving Tour Preview.
Quick, Easy, and Fun!
With Tour Preview, creating interactive maps is not only fast and easy, it's fun. You can make and try changes so quickly that you'll find yourself experimenting to discover new ways to make your interactive maps better and better. Just don't tell anyone how easy it was — let them think you spent days doing what MapsAlive did for you in minutes.
Where are tours hosted?
Tours are hosted at tour.mapsalive.com. Our server has demonstrated 99.999% network availability, which means that the network will be down no more than 5 minutes a year — as close to perfect as you can get. The tours you create with MapsAlive are hosted independently of the MapsAlive web application. If, for example, MapsAlive is down for maintenance, your tours are still available.
Will my tour have its own web address (URL)?
Yes. Each MapsAlive tour gets its own unique URL. The tour that MapsAlive builds is actually a mini web site – a set of web pages – with its own URL similar to this:
tour.mapsalive.com/12345
In this example, 12345 is the name of a folder on the MapsAlive web server that is devoted exclusively to your tour. Whenever you make changes to your tour and build it again, MapsAlive updates the tour’s web pages so that anyone visiting your tour will see the changes immediately. You can use the tour as a stand-alone web site, or if you already have your own web site, you can use the tour’s URL as a link from your site. You can even have a MapsAlive tour appear within a page on your web site like we do with the sample tours on the MapsAlive home page.
Can I change my tour once I’ve published it?
Yes. You can login to your account at any time to edit your tour. You can add or delete maps or hotspots and change existing maps and hotspots. To see your changes on the web, you publish your tour again by going to Tour Preview and clicking the Publish button.
How do I publish my tour to the internet?
In order for you and other people to see changes in your tour on the internet, you must first your tour.
- Click in the upper right corner of the Tour Builder banner.
- Click the link in the menu at the top of the screen.
- Click on the confirmation dialog to publish your tour.
This step updates your tour and makes it available on the internet immediately.
Why do you have to publish your tours? Because changes that you make in the Tour Builder are private until you publish. This lets you work on your tour without affecting people who might be viewing your tour on the internet. You can see how the changes look in the Tour Preview. When you are happy with your changes, you publish the tour and the updated tour becomes available on the internet immediately.
How do I find the URL for my tour?
Once you have published your tour, its URL is displayed in the upper right on the screen. You can click the link to view your tour in a new browser window.
The tour URL is also displayed on the screen.
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