How to save and organize your favorite places on a map
Mental lists of "that great taco spot" and "where we parked" do not survive long. A personal map of saved places does — and it is more useful than a pile of dropped pins, because each spot can carry a name, a note, and a category you actually recognize later.
Why keep your own map of places
Big mapping apps tie your saved places to an account and a company's servers. A personal map flips that: it is yours, it works without an account, and it does not get cluttered with recommendations. It is the right tool for a trip itinerary, a list of viewings, a delivery round, or the spots you keep meaning to visit.
How to save a place
With My Location it takes a few seconds:
- Click or tap the map where you want the pin — or save your current position after you find your coordinates.
- Give it a name and a note so future-you remembers why it mattered ("blue door, ring twice").
- Pick a category — food, a site to visit, home, shopping, and so on — so the map stays scannable.
Organize as the list grows
Categories let you tell a busy map apart at a glance, and a searchable list of everything you have saved means you can jump to any spot by name without hunting across the map. Edit a place any time to fix a name, change its category, or update the note.
It stays private
Your saved places live in your browser's own storage on your device — not on a server. That means they are private by default and available offline once the app is installed. The trade-off is that they live with that browser, which is exactly why exporting matters.
Back it up and move it anywhere
Because your map is just data, you can export it as GPX, KML, or GeoJSON at any time — a backup you control, and a way to move your places into another tool. Need to bring places in from elsewhere? Import the same formats. If you are unsure which to pick, our guide to GPX vs KML vs GeoJSON breaks it down.
Ready to start your map? Open My Location and save your first place, or see the features page for the full picture.