When you share a Public Map link, you can add extra options to the web address (URL) to control what people see when they open it. You can centre the map on a specific location, set the zoom level, drop a marker with a label, and control how layers are stacked — all without changing the map itself.
This article lists each option and shows how to combine them.
Your Public Map link already contains one option — the map's ID:
https://shared.xmap.cloud/?map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91To add more options, append each one with an ampersand (&) in the form name=value:
https://shared.xmap.cloud/?map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91&x=529090&y=179645&z=16| Option | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
map | Identifies which Public Map to open — a long unique reference (UUID). This is included automatically in your shared link. | map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91 |
x and y | Centres the map on a coordinate. Both must be provided together, in the same coordinate system as your map — for most UK maps this is a British National Grid easting (x) and northing (y). | x=529090&y=179645 |
z | Sets the zoom level when used with x and y. Higher numbers zoom in closer. If left out, the map opens at zoom level 12. | z=16 |
label | Drops a red marker at the x/y position with your text shown beside it. Requires x and y. | label=Site%20Entrance |
ordering | Set to new to use the improved layer stacking, which always draws base maps underneath your other layers. | ordering=new |
Add x and y together to open the map centred on that coordinate. Add z to control how far in the map is zoomed:
https://shared.xmap.cloud/?map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91&x=529090&y=179645&z=17Note: When you provide x and y, they take priority over the map's normal starting view. z only takes effect when x and y are also present.
Add label alongside x and y to drop a red marker at that point, with your text displayed to the right of it:
https://shared.xmap.cloud/?map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91&x=529090&y=179645&z=17&label=Car%20ParkBecause URLs cannot contain spaces, replace each space in your label text with %20. For example, Car%20Park appears on the map as “Car Park”.
Tip: To highlight a location with just the red marker and no text, set the label to a single encoded space — label=%20. The marker appears with a blank label, which is ideal when you simply want to point at a spot on the map.
https://shared.xmap.cloud/?map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91&x=529090&y=179645&z=17&label=%20By default, layers are stacked in the order they were configured. Adding ordering=new switches to the improved stacking behaviour, which keeps base maps at the bottom so your overlay layers are never hidden behind them:
https://shared.xmap.cloud/?map=1f0c9a2e-4b7d-4e2a-9c31-8f4d2a6b7e91&ordering=newx and y are present; either one on its own has no effect.label only works together with x and y.%20 and avoid characters such as & and #, which have special meanings in URLs.