So how do I add some pins to my trip?
From your control panel, select the "Add Pins" page. First thing to do is to select the trip you want to add a pin group to from the drop down list. If you have alerady blogged about some locations in the trip you select, your current route will be shown on the map.
Enter a title for your pin group. This title will be pre-appended to the individual titles you give each pin in the pin group and will be displayed when viewers click on your pin markers on your map.
Choose a date for your pin group. Remember that this is the most important piece of information that your pin group needs. This will dictate where the pin group will be drawn in relation to your existing trip. If you're not sure what the dates of your existing blog entries are, you can click on the blog entry pins shown on the map. This will display the blog entry title and date posted.
Now add some pins to your pin group. To do this, simply click on the map. A pin will be drawn on the map and a white box will appear under the map with textboxes for a 'Title', 'Longitude' and 'Latitude'. All these fields are editable by you.
To change the location of a pin in your pin group, click on the pin and while keeping the mouse button pressed, drag the pin elsewhere. This will update the latitude and longitude values for that pin in the box relating to that pin.
To delete a pin, just click on it in the map.
To re-order a pin in your pin list, click anywhere within the white box relating to that pin and while keeping the mouse button pressed, drag it up or down in the list of pin boxes.
If you want more advanced control of where your pins are located, you can manually edit the latitude/longitide coordinates of each pin. This is handy if you want to place two pins in exactly the same location (e.g. you went in a circle). To do this, you must copy and paste the latitude and longitude values from one pin to another. As you do this, the pins on the map will be re-drawn to show your change.
You cannot click in the same location twice because it will delete the pin already at that location.
When you've finished adding pins you can either click 'Save as draft' for further editing or click 'Publish' to show the pins immediately.
Oops! I've made a mistake in my pin group - now what?
Your pin group will be listed in the "Manage Blog Entries" page. From within this page, click edit. This will bring up the "Edit Pins" page.
The "Edit Pins" page is very much like the "Add Pins" page and offers all the same functionality. When you first open up the "Edit Pins" page for a particular pin group, the map will be zoomed in to show the pins and route for that pin group. You can zoom out if you want to see the bigger picture.
From here, you can add, delete and edit the pins in the pin group you are editing. When you've finished editing your pins you can either save the pin group as a 'Draft' for further editing or 'Publish' to show the pins on your public trip pages immediately.
