Map Marklet

Map Marklet is a Chrome extension that lets users save urls to markers on a personal instance of Google Maps.

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Motivation

While planning for road trips, I often save bookmarks to many websites which I then reference later. However, it's difficult to know the locations the websites refer to. This Chrome extension helps users locate the places that the websites refer to on a map.

Demo

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Installation

  • In Chrome, More tools > Extensions, select developer mode.
  • Click button 'Load unpacked extension' and select the build folder.
  • For development, go to the repo and run npm i then gulp watch

Tech Stack

  • React + Redux
  • Google Maps Api
  • Chrome Api

In development

  • User authentication via Chrome oauth2
  • Adding capability for user to save multiple maps/trips