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Location map

An interactive location map can be used for one or more places, based on OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

The locations to be displayed can be entered manually or linked to existing content of the type "Place / POI".

Each location is represented by a marker, clicking on this will open a window with information about the location. Groups of markers can be shown and hidden using additional buttons.

The location map requires one of two external providers: MapTiler (for OpenStreetMaps) or Google Maps. These services can be used free of charge up to a certain quota, after which fees apply. To preserve the free quota, the maps are only displayed in the page editor (edit mode) when clicked on.

This element sets cookies in the “External Content” group.

This element uses JavaScript from external servers.

The execution of the Google Map is controlled by the cookie banner. The maps are therefore NOT displayed if the web user has not consented to external cookies.

Cookies are set when loading the maps via Google. It can be assumed that these include tracking functions for the web user.

External JavaScript files are loaded from Google's servers for this element. These are executed in the context of the page. This theoretically enables extensive tracking of the web user's activities on the displayed page. The extent to which the external JavaScript is actually used for tracking is not known.

This element sets cookies in the “External Content” group.

This function does NOT use JavaScript from external servers.

The execution of OpenStreetMap maps is controlled by the cookie banner. The maps are therefore NOT displayed if the web user has not consented to external cookies.

The OpenStreetMap maps are delivered via the service provider maptiler https://www.maptiler.com/. According to the provider maptiler (see below), no user tracking is carried out with the data. 

When loading the OSM maps, several cookies (exactly 3 as of February 2020) are set.

The complete JavaScript app for displaying the data is based on open source components and is integrated into OpenCms. Only the map material is loaded from the maptiler servers.

According to maptiler, no user data is stored long-term.

https://www.maptiler.com/privacy-policy/index.html

Quote from the above mentioned website:

We don’t track the end-users to sell them targeted advertisements or, even worse, to sell such data to third parties. IP addresses of the MapTiler Cloud visitors are stored in memory only for a limited time needed for security checks; a maximum is 20 minutes, and then automatically destroyed.

Interactive example location map

Example of a location map, displayed with the formatter "OpenStreetMap presentation".

An interactive location map can be used for one or more places, based on OpenStreetMap.

An interactive location map can be used for one or more places, based on Google Maps.