The good news: CL now show a map on the listing itself (previously you had a link to a Google Maps page), which makes it somewhat easier to tell where a listing is located.
What's still missing is the geographic overview that PadMapper offered. If you want that experience, and access to CL listings, your best bet appears to be the "CLMapper" Chrome extension, which pops up a two-panel brwoser window with listings on the left, map on the right, and coordination between the two (hovering over a listing URL highlights the map pin, hovering over a map pin scrolls to and highlights the listing entry).
Even the map on the listing is only confined to certain cities, it seems. They're showing up on SF Bay and Portland listings, but not in Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, Boston, Vancouver, Houston, Philadelphia or anywhere else I looked.
The really good news is that (somehow) PadMapper is still up and working.
Last weekend I was adding a map on the listing page for CLMapper and noticed Craigslist beat me to it! I spent that saved time making the star icons save favorites ;)
What's still missing is the geographic overview that PadMapper offered. If you want that experience, and access to CL listings, your best bet appears to be the "CLMapper" Chrome extension, which pops up a two-panel brwoser window with listings on the left, map on the right, and coordination between the two (hovering over a listing URL highlights the map pin, hovering over a map pin scrolls to and highlights the listing entry).
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omonmigaleaafgpkgo...
The observation that GoogleMaps commercial terms-of-use is increasingly driving third-party sites to free and open alternatives is noted. With irony.