Interactive Store Locator Web App
Search Las Vegas businesses through a synchronized directory and interactive map.
This working store locator demonstrates how a custom web application can help visitors find nearby locations, narrow results by category, review addresses, and move directly between a business list and map markers. The same approach can be adapted for retail stores, offices, service providers, franchises, hospitality groups, attractions, healthcare networks, and other multi-location organizations.
Search and filter Las Vegas businesses
The demonstration uses a sample directory of hotels, restaurants, nightlife, and shopping destinations across the Las Vegas Strip, downtown, Summerlin, and nearby parts of the valley. Search by business name, category, or address, then select a result to focus the map.
How the store locator works
The interface keeps the directory and map connected so visitors can move from a broad search to a specific location without leaving the page.
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Live text search
Results update as visitors search by business name, category, or street address.
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Category filtering
A focused filter helps users quickly narrow a larger directory to the locations relevant to them.
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Synchronized map and list
Selecting a directory result centers the map and opens the matching location marker.
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Responsive presentation
The directory and map shift into a mobile-friendly layout for phones and smaller screens.
Business uses for a custom location finder
A store locator can serve far more than retail storefronts. It can organize offices, dealerships, medical locations, service territories, properties, restaurants, event venues, pickup points, approved vendors, tourism destinations, or any other structured set of places.
The data source can be managed through a custom CMS, database, CRM, spreadsheet import, or third-party API. Additional features can include distance calculations, directions, opening hours, location detail pages, geolocation, featured placements, lead routing, analytics, and administrative editing tools.
Built with maintainable web technology
This demonstration uses PHP for controlled data delivery, JavaScript for search and interaction, Leaflet for map behavior, and OpenStreetMap for the basemap. Business content is rendered through safe DOM methods rather than inserted as untrusted HTML, while the public endpoint validates the data before returning it to the browser.
The result is a focused example of how a lightweight application can sit inside an existing business website without replacing the site's navigation, design system, content structure, analytics, or SEO foundation.
Need a custom store locator or searchable directory?
Web Development Unlimited can adapt this model to your locations, services, data, brand, workflows, and administrative requirements.