Group-in-group support on MapHub

A MapHub sidebar showing a search for 'man' that filters and highlights items, 'Fisherman's Wharf' and 'Manhattan', within a nested group-in-group hierarchy. across the entire deep group hierarchy on your map.

The most requested and technically most challenging feature over the last two years has been group-in-group support for items on MapHub.

Until today, you could only create items and groups on MapHub in a single-level hierarchy.

One example of such a single-level hierarchy is the Berlin Zoo map, which looks like this: items in groups but not groups within other groups.

A MapHub sidebar displaying a single-level hierarchy with a 'buildings' group and separate animal items. This shows the previous limitation where groups could not contain other groups.

With the latest release, we finally made it possible to have groups inside other groups. This means you can have any structure you imagine, like in a file system on your computer.

For example, it is now possible to have a hierarchy like this:

A complex nested group hierarchy in MapHub representing geographical locations from continents to city neighborhoods. This demonstrates the new group-in-group feature resembling a file system structure.

Moreover, you can freely drag and drop elements in the sidebar to rearrange their order and hierarchy.

You can also select groups using the drop-down selector.

A dropdown selector in MapHub showing 'Europe / United Kingdom / England' selected. This demonstrates how users can easily select specific groups.

Filtering works across groups:

A MapHub sidebar with a search query 'mar' entered, highlighting matching items 'Fisherman's Wharf' and 'Manhattan' within their nested groups. This illustrates that filtering works across the deep group hierarchy.

As well as hiding all child items:

A MapHub sidebar where the 'United Kingdom' group is selected and its eye icon is struck through, collapsing its child items from view. This demonstrates the feature of hiding all nested items by toggling the parent group's visibility.

Excel and CSV import and export also work seamlessly if you use the format shown in the screenshot.

Note: When working on an Excel or CSV file, make sure to copy and paste the special ／ character—it is not the same as the / key on your keyboard.

A spreadsheet showing the required Excel or CSV data format for MapHub imports, with the 'group' column containing explicit hierarchical paths using a special slash character. This illustrates how deep group structures are to be formatted for import/export.

This feature is now available on all plans, including the Free plan.

Try it out on MapHub.net