If you don't see your question here, check the general map help, visit the donate page, or send us a question and we might post it here.

Some maps have hundreds of thousands of records to search through. You can speed it up by choosing more filter options to narrow your search.

The map code speed is also limited by the speed of your computer and browser. The best thing you can do is to use the Firefox browser, which can handle these maps many times faster than Internet Explorer. You can download it by clicking the large "Download Firefox" button at the top right of this page.

Yes there is! Create a free account, login, and then if you have a search you'd like to save or link to, click "Bookmark this Search" at the top of each map. You can then email, copy a link, or add the search to your bookmarks. You can also see your previously saved bookmarks on your account page. There's no way to delete a bookmark, since other people might be using it.

No, but we will add this feature in the future. Metro Mapper does save your last typed address during your current visit, so if you switch from one map to another it will pre-fill in your previous search address for you and do the search automatically.

Yes you can, and it will help your users and drive traffic to your site. Read about the details here. Create a free account, login, and then you can choose the map and options you'd like. You then cut and paste some code into your site, and you can then see an interactive map. Wee keep the data up to date remotely so you don't have to. It's all free if you are low traffic site. Contact us for inexpensive options if you have lots of site traffic.

Your computer is probably not powerful enough to show it smoothly, but more likely it is because you are using Internet Explorer as your browser. The best thing you can do is to use the Firefox browser, which can handle these maps many times faster than Internet Explorer. You can download it by clicking the large "Download Firefox" button at the top right of this page.

Yes and No. Yes if you are just talking about the Metro Mapper site in general, or want to describe a feature of the site. No if you are using a clear depiction of the results to display the specific results. Screenshots of the results for commercial purposes are copywritten by Metro Mapper. See the Business Solutions page for how to license them.

Sometimes there are dozens of results at one location, and the popup is very large. In this case, just click on the map and drag it to show more of the popup. When you are done, you can drag back up to your results, or use the "Center of Search" button at the bottom of the map to recenter.

Lots of different sources: sometimes online, sometimes digitally, sometimes manually entered. All of it is available to the public in some form, but there are costs involved with licensing or obtaining the data, and then loading the data cannot always be automated. The "About this Map" button at the top right of each map's page will tell you more about where the data comes from.

Yes we can. Visit the Business Solutions page for how we can help you build custom maps for your data.

Yes, and we welcome all of your feedback, positive or negative. Please visit the Contact Us page and tell us your idea. We might be working on it already, or it may be new to us. Either way, the more requests we get for certain features, the higher priority they will be when we are improving the site.

Well, we don't. What we are hoping for is that at some point it will at least be able to pay for itself, through your donations, advertising, sponsors, contract work, etc. We are a grassroots news organization that want to truly make free, public information truly public. Please visit the Donations to learn more, see what our costs are, and how you can help.