A tour is one or more interactive maps, plus optional features, that display in a web browser. Optional features include a title bar, banner, menu, and directory that are common to all maps in the tour. Each tour has a unique URL. You use the MapsAlive Tour Builder to create a tour and choose what maps and optional features to include — all this and more with no programming.
The simplest tour is just a single interactive map with no optional features as shown in example 1 below. A three-map tour with several optional features is shown in example 2.
Example 1 (above) — Mouse over the green squares to see photos. This tour has one interactive map and no optional features.
Example 2 (right) — Mouse over the blue arrows to see photos and click the yellow feet to go upstairs. Click the menu to switch between maps and mouse over the directory to locate specific house features.
This house tour has three interactive maps, and a title bar, menu, and directory.
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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.
How many maps can I have in my tour?
You can have as many maps as you want in your tour. Each map has its own set of hotspots and only one map displays at a time in a web page.
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