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title: "Places and maps"
description: "Save places from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and OpenStreetMap as pins on a map, with custom pins and a map view for every folder."
source: https://savepad.app/docs/places-and-maps
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# Places and maps

Save places from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and OpenStreetMap as pins on a map, with custom pins and a map view for every folder.

Not everything worth saving is on a screen. A billboard, a shop window, the taquería with the great menu, the wine bar your friend wouldn’t stop talking about. A place is a pin on a map.

## How to save a place

- **Paste a maps link.** Google Maps (short `maps.app.goo.gl` links too), Apple Maps, OpenStreetMap, and Bing Maps links become places.
- **Share it from your phone.** In Google Maps or Apple Maps, hit share, then email it to your Savepad address.
- **Search for it.** Press **N**, pick **Place** under **Or pick what it is**, and type the name and the town: “Casa Botella, Madrid”.
- **Import your Google Maps lists**, all of them at once. See [importing Google Maps lists](https://savepad.app/docs/import-google-maps-lists).

![A saved wine bar in Madrid in Savepad, with a violet pin on a dark map, the address, Google Maps and Apple Maps buttons, and a custom wine glass pin](https://savepad.app/shots/a-saved-wine-bar-in-madrid-in-savepad-with-623f37.png)

A place is a pin on a map, with buttons to open it in the map app you use.

## What you get

- A pin on a map, with the name and the address
- **Google Maps** and **Apple Maps** buttons, to open it in the app you actually use
- **Your own pin**: an emoji or an icon, in a colour. Wine glasses for bars, tacos for tacos. Your most-used pins come first.

## Not on the map yet?

Some places save without a pin, usually because the maps link didn’t say where. Open the place and it says **Not on the map yet**, with a search box. Find it, or paste its coordinates, and it’s pinned.

## A map of a whole folder

Any folder, space, or tag with places in it gets a **map view** next to the grid and list buttons. You see every pin at once, with the list of what’s in view beside it. Filter it by tag to see only the #must-do ones. Select a few and press **Pin** to style them all at once.

Search for places comes from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, which knows a lot more restaurants and shops.