Save your own places, favourites and routes on the map

Under My places the map collects your favourites, your own markers and your saved routes. Without an account they stay on your device. With an account they are kept in your account, and you have them on every device.

Keeping favourites

Open a place and tap the star at the top of the panel. The place then appears under My places among your favourites. Clicking the star again removes it. Under Layers, Favourites only hides all other places.

Dropping your own marker

1. Right-click the spot on the map you want. On a phone, long-press it.

2. Choose Drop a pin.

3. Enter a name and tap Save.

Use Edit in the marker's panel to change its name and add a note of up to 280 characters that only you can see. You can move the marker by dragging it on the map or with Move to map centre. You can also use it as the start, destination or a stop of a route, or delete it.

Saving routes

In the route planner, Save to My places stores a planned route under a name of your choice. How to plan routes is explained in Routes and measuring.

Without and with an account

• Without an account only your browser stores your places on this device. We receive nothing. If you clear the site data in your browser or use a private window, they may be lost.

• With an account your places are kept in your account. The top of My places always shows whether you are saving on this device or in your account.

• If you sign in while places are stored on the device, My places offers to copy them into your account. Add to my account copies them, and they also stay on the device. Not now declines.

• If a change can't be saved to your account, the map briefly shows a notice with Try again, and My places shows the button Save again. Until then, the change is only kept until you reload the page.

Backing up and transferring

1. Open My places and choose Export under Back up and transfer. You get a JSON file, for example as a backup or for another device.

2. On the other device or in your account, choose Import and then the file.

3. The map shows what the file contains and what is new. Merge adds the new entries. Existing entries stay as they are.

Good to know

• There are limits: 300 own markers, 500 favourites and 50 routes. An import file can be at most 256 KB.

• Undo at the top of My places, or Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac), reverses your last change. Redo restores it.

• If a place disappears from the map data, your favourite stays and is marked No longer on the map.

• The map data in your account is included in the data export under Data & account. When your account is deleted, it is deleted too.

See also: Using the map, Sharing map places and Suggest a place.