Mapus

Hey Product Hunt 👋 Last month while planning a move I came across MyMaps by Google, which allows you to share and collaborate on custom maps with your friends. I was surprised to find out this meant asynchronous collaboration instead of real-time (which I'm so used to with tools like Figma 😋), so that gave me the idea to build such a tool myself. Here are some of its features: 🙌 Real-time collaboration to help plan trips synchronously ✏️ Draw to highlight areas on the map 📏 Create lines to designate paths and measure distance 📐 Create areas to mark different zones 📍 Create markers to save places on the map ☕️ Find places and things to do nearby 🔍 Search and navigate to specific places 👀 Observe other users by clicking on their avatar 📝 View a list of all the annotations, and toggle their visibility 💾 Export the map data as GeoJSON ...and much more - all for free! While I am using Firebase which has a generous free plan, I felt it would be too risky to provide a live version as real-time collaboration can be costly. Instead I've provided simple instructions in the GitHub repo so anyone can self-host it (or even commercialize it if they want!). Hope you like it! 💜

Congrats on the launch! Very cool project. What are you using to create realtime collaboration?

Hi Alyssa! Congrats on the launch! This is an amazing product 🚀 I'm also concerned that there isn't a collaborative tool for working with maps for travelers like Figma for designers. My team and I make a service for creating routes for traveling, hiking, cycling, and other outdoor activities. It's called ActiveTrip.me. And we plan to add the ability to collaborate in real-time. So your product is very close to us in spirit! Good luck!

Impressive 👍🏻

Great tool! Something that Google Maps lacks right now! Good luck and to the moon!

SO cool! It's like FigJam for maps! By the way, you're link in the ReadMe (GitHub) for Google MyMaps is broken.

This is super cool and going to be useful for me, thanks for making.