Map ideas for every kind of place

Ways to use MapAPlace

From a simple store locator to a detailed visitor guide, MapAPlace helps people explore locations, understand what is nearby, and find the information that matters to them.

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A new way to explore the woods

Custom forest trail map

Bring your woodland trails to life with a map designed around your forest, its paths and the places worth stopping.

A walker explores an illustrated woodland map, opens a viewpoint or picnic spot for more information and chooses a saved trail. A custom path network can provide routes between trail stops.

  • Your own illustrated woodland basemap
  • Trailheads, viewpoints and picnic stops
  • Saved trails and optional custom path routing

Use Custom Basemap for your forest artwork and Markers for trail stops. Add Routes and navigation for saved trails, and Custom routing to follow your own mapped path network.

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Make the next visit easy

Store finder

Help customers find their nearest branch, discover what it offers and plan their visit.

A customer searches their town, narrows the results to nearby stores and opens a location for its address, details and website link.

  • Location and distance filters
  • Categories for store types or services
  • Marker popups with useful visit information

Start with Markers and Categories. Add the Filters extension for location search and distance filtering.

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Every floor, every discovery

Indoor shopping centre

Turn your floor plans into a visitor guide that helps shoppers explore shops, food and services across every level.

A shopper switches floors, searches the shop directory and selects a shop to bring it into view. Hover previews make browsing quick; clicking keeps its details open.

  • Interactive 2D or 3D shops
  • Floor selector and searchable shop directory
  • Shop logos, subtitles and popup content

Use the Buildings extension to import SVG floor plans. Add Custom routing and Routes and navigation when you want routes on your indoor network.

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Give every stop a little adventure

Treasure hunt

Create a trail that turns a park, high street or shopping centre into a place to explore, collect and solve.

Visitors scan QR codes at each stop, collect letters and watch their progress grow. Finding every location reveals the completion message and optional next-step link.

  • Printable QR codes for each stop
  • Optional anagram letters to collect
  • Saved progress and a completion screen

Add the Treasure Hunt extension to your markers or Buildings. Choose the stops, enter an optional anagram word and print the QR codes.

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