Use the Profile tab to manage your settings, maps, subscriptions, and personal profile. From the profile section, you can also add new friends, or view the profiles of your existing friends to check out what they've been viewing and creating on MapWith.Us. Below, we will work our way through the features that are found in the profile section by looking at each of the items located on the menu on the right side of the Profile Tab.

Maps

The Maps area of your profile provides a listing of your maps on the MapWith.Us site. From the maps section of the profile, you can find the maps the profile's owner has published. From your own profile, you can also find your unpublished maps, and even begin creating a new map.

• Public

  Public maps are maps that have been published to the MapWith.Us community. These are your maps that everyone else can see. Clicking on this menu item allows you to view a listing of your Public maps. From the listing, you can change a maps 'mobile status' (whether the map can be uploaded to from one of our mobile phone applications. The listing also provides links allowing you to easily edit or view your map.

• Private

  Private maps are maps that have not been published to the community. Clicking on this menu item provides a listing of your private maps, with the same options as the listing of your public maps.

• Create New

  Clicking the 'Create New' menu option will take you directly to the Creator Tab with a brand new map that is yours to do whatever you find to be to your liking with.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions are map services that you subscribe to. As an example, suppose your local newspaper uses the MapWith.Us service to provide a map on their website. They might control access to that map by using subscriptions. This provides a means to control who has access to a map, and what they are allowed to do once they do access it.

• Active

  Active subscriptions are those that you are currently subscribed to. Viewing the active subscriptions will show a summary of the service and a listing of the subscription plans available for that service. This is also where you would go to unsubscribe from a subscription service, or to subscribe to a different plan (if available) for a service you already subscribe to.

• Available

  Available subscriptions are essentially services that are available for you to subscribe to. These services will generally either be open to all users or you will have received an invitation to subscribe to it. Regardless, this is where you check if you are looking for a service to subscribe to or are expecting an invitation to subscribe to a service.

• Open Invitations

  These are your invitations to subscribe to a service that you have not responded to yet. Once you accept or ignore an invitation, it will no longer show up in this list.

• Available Services

  Available services are those that are available for you to subscribe to. Unlike the Open Invitations section, Available Services will continue to be listed even if you already subscribe to that service.

Friends

Friends put the fun in sharing maps. The profile Friends area provides some great tools for managing your MapWith.Us friends.

• List

  The List menu option simply provides a list of all your friends. From the list, you can click the friend's name or follow the View Profile link to view their profile. You can also remove a friend from your collection by clicking on the Remove Friend link.

• Add

  Following the Add menu item will display a text box on your screen to enter email addresses into. If you don't remember the email address offhand, or would like to process many friends at once, you can use the Add From My Address Book link to select and pull friends' email addresses from your address book via your email provider (if you use an online service such as Hotmail or GMail) or from your Outlook or Outlook Express address book. If you decide to use this service, be assured that MapWith.Us does not receive or store your email account login information. Once you have a list of email addresses in place and ready, hit search. MapWith.Us will not send email to the addresses you submit, we simply look in the MapWith.Us database and search for user accounts associated with the email addresses you provided. You will be presented with a list of users associated with the email addresses you provide. From the result list, you will be able to view the user's profile, add them as a friend, or remove them from your list of friends.

• Invite

  What better way to get friends than to invite them? The invite section of the profile area allows you to email invitations to your friends that may not have a MapWith.Us account yet. Like the Add dialogue, the Invite Friends section gives you the opportunity to import contacts from your existing online email service or the Outlook/Outlook Express address books. MapWith.Us does not receive or store login credentials entered to pull your contact information from these third-party services.

Favorites

MapWith.Us allows you to keep track of your favorite places and searches as you explore the site so that you can quickly revisit a place or search that you have previously looked up.

• Places

  Our system for adding favorite places is currently being reworked. If you have added favorite places in the past, clicking this link will list them for you.

• Searches

  Our system for adding favorite searches is also currently being reworked. If you have added favorite searches in the past, clicking this link will list them for you. Clicking on an item in the list will take you to the search results listing for that search.

If you have comments or suggestions about our Favorites functionality, feel free to Contact Us.

Activity

The Activity link in the profile allows you to look at a summary of your activity on the MapWith.Us website.

• My Activity

  Following the My Activity link shows a summary of your activity.

• Friends Activity

  Following the Friends Activity link shows a summary of the activity of your friends on MapWith.Us.

Settings

The Settings area of the profile page is where settings related to this specific user (you) can be changed. Clicking on the Settings menu item exposes the following options:

• About

  In the About section, you can change information related to your profile such as: Name, Location, Email, Birthdate, Gender, About Me, and Interests. Simply modify or fill the field you would like to change or add and click Save Changes when you are done. Additionally, you can add links to your website(s) or web presence(s) to your profile. To do so, simply enter a title and url for the Web Presence you would like to define. If we have an icon on hand for the site you specified, we will apply it to your listing automatically, otherwise it will be shown with a default icon.

• Account

  For settings specific to your account, such as changing your account type, viewing your current usage statistics, or changing your password, visit the Account section of the Settings menu.

  • Account Details

    In the Account Details section, you can change your account type (by clicking on the Change link or you can view your current storage and bandwidth usage. Storage Usage is a measurement of how much disk space the items you have uploaded to MapWith.Us occupy and Bandwidth Usage is a count of how many items have been loaded from embedded maps owned by you. In order for an item to be considered as loaded, it must appear in the viewing area of the map. I.e. Items that are outside of the viewing area will not be counted until they appear in the viewing area. Generally speaking, this bandwidth limit is quite large and is unlikely to be reached by casual users. If you are approaching your limit for storage or bandwidth, consider upgrading to one of our advanced personal accounts or perhaps even a business account if you have a high-volume site or media-rich maps.

  • Change Password

    Near the bottom of the Account Settings page is a form allowing you to change your password. If you have simply forgotten your username or password, you may want to try our Password Retrieval mechanism instead. If you would like to change your password, simply enter your current password into the field labeled Current Password. Then, enter your new password into the two remaining fields (New Password and Confirm). Finally, click the Change button to submit your request to change passwords. A dialogue on the screen will inform you whether or not the change was successful.

• Photo

  The photo section of the Profile Settings allows you to change your avatar (the default photo associated with your account). To select a new photo to use, just click on the one you would like, the rest will happen automatically. If you don't see the photo you want, click on the Browse button, locate the image on your computer, and then click Upload to upload it from your computer. When the upload is complete your image should appear with the rest of your photos. Just click on it and you are set!

• Mobile

  The Mobile settings page provides a place to set your preferences for items uploaded to MapWith.Us from your mobile phone and manage the Mobile Application Key associated with your account.

  • Mobile Settings

    The Uploaded item look & feel settings control how items you upload to MapWith.Us from your mobile phone appear on your MapWith.Us maps. If Show Title is checked, items uploaded to the map will be shown with a title bubble over the item containing the item's name inside of it. If Show photo thumbnail is checked, a thumbnail of the item uploaded will be shown on the map at the location your mobile app had set as its Current Location when the item was uploaded. Alternatively, you can select Show icon to choose or upload an icon to display when an item is uploaded via your mobile phone. When selecting an icon, you will also have the option to Anchor the icon. This refers to the icons position relative to the point on the map it is associated with. For example, if you were to place an item on your map at some location, anchoring the icon to the middle, middle would cause the icon first to be centered on the location vertically and then centered on the location horizontally. An anchor of top, left would position the top-left corner of the icon at the location on the map. When you are done changing the Mobile Settings, click the Save look and feel button.

  • Mobile Key

    The Mobile Key associates your mobile phone with your MapWith.Us account. It consists of 8 random alphanumeric characters. If you are setting up your mobile phone to use one of our mobile applications, you will need to enter this key. To reset your key, simply click on the button at any time. If you change your key after you have set up your mobile phone, you will need to change the Mobile Key in the MapWith.Us application's settings on your phone.

• Applications

  The Applications section of the Profile manages your MapWith.Us account's interaction with third-party applications. From here, you can follow a link to view the API documentation, register a new application, or view a list of applications that you have approved to add access to your account.

  • Developer Api

    The Developer API section provides links to the MapWith.Us Developer API documentation, a link to register a new application, a link to the Featured Applications page, and a link to the MapWith.Us API Google Group.

  • Applications

    If you are the developer of an application that uses the MapWith.Us API, this is where you will see your application listed after you register it. Registering your application allows it to communicate with MapWith.Us via the API. For more information, see the section on our Developer API or go to our Application Registration page.

  • Access

    The Access section of the Applications Settings lists all applications that you have granted access to your MapWith.Us account data. You can revoke access at any time simply by clicking revoke access. If you revoke access, you will likely be prompted to grant it again the next time you use the application that access was granted for.

• Subscriptions

  Clicking the Subscription option brings up the same menu as the Subscriptions-Available option. Look there for more information.

• Reports

  The Reports settings control how you are notified if your map is reported as abusive or offensive.

  • Contact Email

    If you would like to be notified at an email address other than the one associated with your MapWith.Us account, specify it here. If no email is specified and your preferences are to be notified, notification will be sent to the email associated with your account.

  • Receive Emails About Reported

    My checking the box next to an item, you are indicating that you would like to be notified if you create an item of that type and it is reported as abusive or offensive. Currently, there are settings for Maps and Articles. If you check the Maps option, you will be notified if one of your maps is reported. If you select the Article option, you will be notified if any articles that you create (even if they exist on a map belonging to somebody else) are reported as abusive or offensive.