How-to guides

For visitors

All For visitors guides.

How the directory works — the bottom sheet on a phone and the side panel on a computer — so you can scroll, expand and collapse the list of places.

Draw a walking route to any place on a Mapvera map — pick where you're starting from, follow the line, and switch to a step-free route.

A quick tour of what you see when you open a Mapvera map — the map itself, the list of places, and how to find and open somewhere.

Why a Mapvera map looks and behaves a little differently on a phone versus a computer — the bottom sheet, the side panel, and touch versus mouse.

Send a friend a link that opens the map right on the place you're looking at — and what happens when you receive one.

Move between floors on a multi-level Mapvera map using the on-map level switcher — and how the map follows you across floors automatically.

Expand a Mapvera map to fill your whole screen for a bigger, distraction-free view — and get back out again.

Move around a Mapvera map — zoom in for detail, drag to pan, and use the minimap and zoom buttons to keep your bearings.