Mentora Maps

Description

Mentora Maps puts your shops, restaurants, clinics or partners on a map, with a list beside it that
stays in step: click a marker, the list follows; click an entry, the map goes there.

It runs on OpenStreetMap through Leaflet. That means no API key to get, no credit card to leave, no
quota to watch, and nothing to re-do the day a provider changes its prices.

What an activity holds

• Name, description, address with postcode, town, province and country
• Coordinates, found from the address or set by dragging the marker
• Phone, mobile with WhatsApp, email, website
• Opening hours, with today’s “open now” worked out in the reader’s browser
• Photos, videos and documents, and social profiles: as many as you need
• Links and documents: menu, bookings, a price list, a PDF — each one to an address or to a file
• A category with its own icon and colour

On the page

• Map and list side by side, the map on the left or on the right, or the map on its own
• Markers grouped when there are many, single when there are few
• Light, standard and dark views of the map
• Detail in a popup on the map, in a panel over the list, or as a sheet that rises from the bottom on
  phones, with three heights
• A page of its own for every activity, if you want one
• Search and filters above the list: by name, address, category, town, country, and “open now”
• Colours, corners, shadows and motion, from a panel with a live preview
• Shortcodes and a Gutenberg block

It stays yours

• No limits on what is here: activities, photos, videos, documents, links and social profiles
• Uninstalling leaves your activities alone unless you say otherwise
• No account, no key, no call home

What Mentora Maps Pro adds

The free plugin is a whole map, not a demo, and what is in it has no limits. Pro is a separate
plugin that adds things this one does not do:

• Import from CSV, WP Go Maps and Google Business, export to CSV and JSON, and scheduled sync
• “Where I am”, with the distances, the distance filter and sorting by distance
• The whole card: the full week of opening hours, reviews with stars, custom fields of your own
• Accounts for your readers: saved places, reviews, notifications
• Heatmap, satellite, map styles, the scale bar, and routes with distance and time
• Backgrounds, typefaces and a size for every element, and all the layouts
• The activity’s name written on the cover, instead of where your theme puts it
• Statistics of your own, and the badge removed

The comparison, line by line, is inside the plugin under Activities → Pro.

What it talks to

One thing only, and it waits for consent: the map images come from OpenStreetMap. Everything else —
sharing a place on WhatsApp or Telegram, opening directions in Apple or Google Maps — happens when
your reader clicks, not before. The External services section below says exactly what is sent,
to whom, and when.

What this plugin does not do

It does not phone home, does not collect statistics, and never asks your readers where they are —
there is no “where I am” button in this version, so the question is never put. It does not send
anything about them anywhere.

External services

This plugin connects to the services below. Two of them are contacted on their own — the map tiles,
by your reader’s browser, and the address lookup, by your site while you fill in an activity. All
the others are links: nothing is requested until somebody clicks one, and what travels is what
is written in the link.

OpenStreetMap tiles (tile.openstreetmap.org) — the map images themselves. Requested by the
browser of whoever is looking at a page with a map on it, which means their IP address and the area
of the map they are looking at reach the tile servers. This is the only service a reader’s browser
contacts by itself, and for that reason the map waits for cookie consent where a consent banner
is installed (Complianz and iubenda are recognised): before consent it shows a notice instead of
loading anything.
Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
Privacy: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

Nominatim (nominatim.openstreetmap.org) — turns an address into coordinates, and coordinates
back into an address. Called by your site, from the administration only, while you are filling in
an activity or moving its pin: the address you typed, or the coordinates of the pin, are what gets
sent. Never called for your readers, and never on a public page.
Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/
Privacy: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

WhatsApp (api.whatsapp.com, wa.me) — two links, and only if you turn them on. «Share» opens
WhatsApp with the name and the address of the page already written in the message; «WhatsApp» next
to a phone number opens a chat with that number. Nothing is sent until your reader clicks, and
nothing about your reader is added to the link.
Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service
Privacy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy

Telegram (t.me) — the same two cases: «Share» opens Telegram with the address of the page and
the name of the activity, and the contact link opens the chat of the username the activity has.
On click only.
Terms: https://telegram.org/tos
Privacy: https://telegram.org/privacy

Apple Maps (maps.apple.com) — the «Directions» link, when the reader’s device is an Apple one.
It carries the coordinates of the activity and its name, and it opens when clicked.
Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/maps/terms-en.html
Privacy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

Google Maps (www.google.com/maps) — the same «Directions» link on everything else, with the
same coordinates and name. On click only.
Terms: https://www.google.com/intl/en/help/terms_maps/
Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

The social buttons of an activity — Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and the others — are plain
links to the addresses you typed in that activity. This plugin writes nothing into them and
contacts nothing: they are listed here only so that the picture is complete.

Services Mentora Maps Pro can reach

This package does not contain the code that talks to any of them. Satellite imagery, street
routing, Adobe Fonts, Google Fonts and the FontAwesome Kit live in the Mentora Maps Pro add-on,
which is not distributed here, and each is named in full in that plugin’s own readme. Installing
this one gives your readers’ browsers exactly one destination outside your site: OpenStreetMap, for
the map images, after they have accepted cookies.