The Project

MapSwitch 🗺️ is a browser extension that allows you to open a different map in a new tab on the same location (latitude/longitude) as your currently viewed map.

It works in Chromium-based browsers and Firefox.

How does it work?

• you are browsing a map site like Google or OpenStreetMap
• right-click somewhere to open your browser's context menu (i.e. not on the map directly, but on some other element)
• click the MapSwitch menu item and then the site you want to open
• a new tab will be opened, and the map will be located at the same latitude/longitude with the same level of zoom.

Release in Chrome Web Store

Thinking about it 😀

How to install locally?

• Clone this GIT repository to your machine, thus having a local "map-switch" folder.

Chromium (Chrome/Brave/Edge).

• Navigate to extensions (either type about:extensions or click on the three dots/dashes top right, then More Tools and Extensions)
• Make sure to have Developer Mode enabled (top right)
• Click on the Load unpacked button
• Select the map-switch folder

Firefox

• Type about:debugging
• Click on This Firefox
• Click on the Load Temporary Add-on... button
• Select the manifest.json file in map-switch