📍 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 the 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 the 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.

Saved places belong to your account, not to any event or group. They're private — nobody else can see them — and they are the same pins on PackListPRO, so a spot you saved there is already here. They also fill the place picker in your Status & Check-in popup.

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. Under the map, 🏷 Show place names labels every pin (long names are shortened) and Show places I've checked into adds your check-ins as a second layer; both are remembered.

The Check-ins card further down lists places you've checked into but never saved. ＋ Save as My Place turns one into a pin without typing it again, and ⋯ on those rows carries 🧭 Route, 🗺️ Google Maps, 📍 Google Place and 📤 Share — so you can drive back to one, or pass it on, without saving it at all.

🙈 Hiding Is Not Deleting

These live behind the ⋯ button — on a pin's bubble on the 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 the map takes a pin off the map but keeps it here, grayed out in Your Saved Places, ready to bring back with 👁 Show on the map. Nothing about the pin is lost. A hidden pin also drops out of the Status & Check-in picker.

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

× Remove is permanent — there's a confirmation, and after that the pin is gone for good, on both sites. 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.

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, And Passing It On

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 the map 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.

Both 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.

📤 Share — under ⋯ — offers a place to your contacts, or to any email address. Nothing lands in their places — a qMEET member gets a card on their Home and decides whether to save it. If they do, it becomes their pin, on qMEET and PackListPRO both, and from then on it's theirs: they can rename or move it and yours doesn't change.

An email address that already belongs to a member gets that same card. One that doesn't just gets the place and a map link — there's no account to save it into, so there's nothing for them to answer.

You can share the same place again later — to nudge someone who hasn't answered, or to offer it back to someone who saved it and then removed it. The picker tells you where each contact stands: ✓ Sent, Saved it or Passed.

🧭 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, so you can tell a current position from an old one at a glance.

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 tick, which would be a lot of work for a line that hasn't visibly changed.

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 PackListPRO's My Places, and cap at 100.