My Places

📍 Nothing Is Saved Until ✓ Save

Every way in — picking a search result, 📍 Search Nearby Places, 📍 Pin My Exact Location, ＋ Add a Place, or the 📌 button on any map — does the same thing: it drops a pin and opens the Add a Place window.

📍 Search Nearby Places takes one extra step first: it lists the places right around you. Tap the one you're at and the pin lands on that place with its name and address already filled in. Nothing near you fits — you're in a car park, a field, a spot with no name? ✋ None of these pins the exact point you're standing on instead — the same thing 📍 Pin My Exact Location does straight away, without the list.

⚠ That pin is only a placeholder. Cancel or the × in the corner throws it away — the pin and anything you typed — without asking. Only ✓ Save keeps it. Nothing else closes that window: clicking the dark area outside it, or pressing Esc, leaves your work exactly where it is.

A pin needs a Label; Save won't go through without one. Category and Notes are optional — the category only chooses the icon and color, and your notes show in the pin's bubble on every map.

Pick the Other category and a Pin icon chooser appears, because that's the one category that doesn't say what the place is. Tap any icon to use it instead of 📍, or type in the search box to reach any emoji by name — pizza, gas, dog. Leave the box empty and you just browse the usual icons. Tapping your chosen icon a second time, or Use the default, puts it back.

The address is worked out for you from where the pin is sitting, and it's saved with the pin and shown in its bubble. Leave it alone and it follows the pin as you move it, so there's nothing you have to type and nothing to keep in step.

Type in the Address box and it becomes yours. From then on it is saved exactly as you wrote it and nothing overwrites it — not moving the pin, not saving, not reopening it later. Use it when you know the address better than the map does, or when the pin sits somewhere with no address of its own. Changed your mind? ↻ Use this spot's address under the box hands it back to the map.

＋ Add a Place drops the pin at the center of the map, not where you are. 📍 Search Nearby Places and 📍 Pin My Exact Location are the two that use your device's location.

🗺️ Your Pins Follow You, Not Your Trip

Saved places belong to your account, not to a trip. They're private — nobody else can see them, not even people you share a trip with — and they stay exactly where they are when you switch trips or finish one.

They also show on Places Near Me, Parks and each park's own page — every map that has a 📌 button — so you never add them twice. They're the same pins on qMEET's My Places, too: one account, one list.

The teal ★ and gray ◆ pins are the opposite. They're the 🧳 This Trip layer — your selected trip's destination and stops along the way — so they change when you change trips. They aren't yours to edit or remove here; fix those on Edit Trip.

The box in the map's top-right corner switches 📍 My Places and 🧳 This Trip on and off. That's just a view setting for the map you're looking at — it changes nothing and isn't remembered. 🏷 Show place names on the map, under the map, is remembered: it labels every pin (long names are shortened), so untick it if the labels crowd a busy map.

The purple line joining those trip pins is your route — where you start, each stop along the way, then your destination. It's drawn for you, and the caption under the map names the trip so you always know which one it is. Where it starts comes from Starting Location on Edit Trip, or your profile address if you haven't set one.

Blue pins with a name beside them are your trip's plans — what you've actually scheduled, from the Itinerary page. A numbered one is a dated plan, and the number is its place in the trip in date order — 1 is the first thing you do, not "day 1". Tap any of them to open it. Like the route, they follow the trip you're working on and aren't edited here.

When the trip also has route stops, only one of the two gets numbered — pick which under Numbers on the map. With the numbers on the stops, plans are drawn as plain dots and still carry their names.

Open 🔑 Map key under the map for what every pin, number and color means. It lists only what is actually on your map.

A pin marked ≈ sits at the center of its town, not at its street address. We place plans and trip stops from their city and state — so an address on a plan is a label, not a location, and the pin can be several miles from the door. Link a plan to a park or a campsite, or give it exact coordinates, to pin it properly.

👁 Hiding Is Not Deleting

These live behind the ⋯ button — on a pin's bubble on any map, and at the end of its row in Your Saved Places. Only 🧭 Route and 🗺️ Google stay out in the open, because those are the ones you press again and again.

🙈 Hide from maps takes a pin off every map but keeps it here, grayed out in Your Saved Places, ready to bring back with 👁 Show on maps. Nothing about the pin is lost.

👁 Show on maps is only in the list's ⋯ menu, never a map's — a hidden pin isn't drawn on the map, so there's no bubble there to open.

× Remove is permanent — it asks a second time, and after that the pin is gone for good. A hidden pin still counts toward your limit of 200 saved places, so when you hit the cap, hiding won't make room; removing will.

📍 Google Place, in the same menu, opens the pin on Google Maps — for a place you picked from a search or the nearby list, that's its real listing, hours and reviews included.

To change a saved pin, click it on the map or pick ✎ Edit from ⋯ in its row — same window, same ✓ Save.

Need it somewhere else? The window covers the map on purpose, so press Move Pin on the Map first — the form tucks away keeping everything you've typed, and you can drag the pin or tap anywhere on the map. ✓ Done brings the form back.

🔎 Finding One In A Long List

Click a place's name in the list and the map goes to it — it centers on the pin, opens its bubble and flashes it, and the row stays marked so you can see which one you're looking at. A hidden pin isn't drawn on the map at all, so it says so instead of jumping somewhere; 👁 Show on maps in that same row's ⋯ menu puts it back.

Sort above the list reorders it: Newest first to start with, so what you just added is at the top — or Name (A–Z) to look one up by name, or Category to bring all the parking, or all the campsites, together. It's remembered for next time, on whatever device you sign in from. Whichever you pick, your Home stays first — a place in the 🏠 Home category, or one named just “Home”.

Filter narrows the list to one category — all the parking, or just the campsites. It only ever offers categories you actually have, so it can't strand you on an empty list, and All categories puts everything back.

Search filters as you type — no button, nothing to press. It looks at a place's name, its address, your notes and its category all at once, and every word you type has to match something, in any order: troy pizza finds the pizza place in Troy whichever way round you type it. × clears it.

Filter and Search work on the list only — the map keeps showing every pin, on purpose, so filtering can never make a pin you were looking at vanish. And unlike Sort, neither is remembered: they start fresh each visit, so you never come back to a short list and wonder where the rest went. All three appear once you have two places to sort through — Filter, once two of them are in different categories.

🧭 Getting There

🧭 Route draws the drive from where you are onto this map. Every route the router knows is drawn at once — each in its own color, the chosen one thicker — and they're listed under the map with a matching color dot, how far, and how long. Tap a row, or tap a line on the map, to switch to it. × Clear route takes them all off again.

🗺️ Google hands the trip to Google Maps in a new tab, with the start and the destination already filled in, for turn-by-turn while you drive. There's one on every place and one on the route list. Both are on saved pins and on search results — you can route somewhere without saving it first.

The search box takes an address, a town, or a business by name and town (skateworld troy, mi). Matches are listed and dropped on the map in red, nearest first, so you can ＋ Save the one you want as a place — or just 🧭 Route to it and save nothing.

Routes start from where you are, so the map needs your location. The blue dot follows you on its own while this page is open — there's nothing to switch on. 📍 Refresh My Location, in the toolbar at the top beside 📍 Pin My Exact Location, asks for a fix right now — worth a tap if you've been sitting still and the dot looks stale. The line just above the map says how precise the fix is and what time it was actually taken.

A route you're already looking at only redraws once you've actually moved a quarter mile or so — it isn't rebuilt on every check, which would be a lot of work for a line that hasn't visibly changed. You can route to a 🧳 This Trip stop too: click its pin on the map and use 🧭 Route in the bubble.

Wherever you last asked to go is still on the map next time — open this page and the route draws itself, exactly as if you'd pressed 🧭 Route again. It's the same destination Places Near Me uses, so a drive you set up on either page is already drawn on the other. × Clear route is how you stop it: that forgets the destination as well as taking the lines off.

Use Google Routes and Avoid tolls, under the map, swap in Google's paid routing. They're for trusted members only — everyone else's routes come from the free engine, and the line beside them says so.

🛣 Roads You'd Rather Not Drive

A pin remembers a spot; a road remembers a stretch — where the washboard starts and where it stops. The 🛣 button in the map's top-left corner marks one: click the start of the road, click the end, and the road between them is matched for you. ✓ Looks right — Save keeps it; ✎ Wrong road — trace it lets you click your way along it instead (↶ Undo, then ✓ Finish).

Give it a name, a Road type (Dirt, Gravel, Muddy when wet, 4WD only…) and How bad is it?. Has a sidewalk / No sidewalk are walking notes only — they never steer a drive.

⏺, next to it, marks a road by driving it: tap ▶ START SEGMENT when the road turns bad, then tap how bad it was when it ends — that one tap ends the segment, rates it and saves it under a dated name you can rename later. The start is backdated to where you slowed down, so there's no rush to grab the phone. Keep the screen on: a locked phone stops the GPS, and if the signal drops out only the longest unbroken part is kept — a gap is never drawn as a straight line.

Avoid bad roads I marked, under the map, appears once you have one. With it on, 🧭 Route prefers the alternate that spends the fewest miles on your marked roads — the worse the rating, the more each mile counts, and anything crossing a road you rated Impassible is skipped outright. Each route row says how far it runs on a marked road. It knows nothing about roads you haven't marked.

Your Marked Roads lists them under the map card. A road's bubble on the map offers ✎ Edit, ✂ Adjust ends (drag either end along the road), 👁 Hide and × Remove (asks twice, then it's gone for good). Showing above the list changes only what's drawn: a hidden road, or a type you've filtered out, is still avoided. Like your pins, roads are private, are the same roads on qMEET's My Places, and cap at 100.