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Search & places

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Search & places

Share links & QR codes

Grab a short link and a downloadable QR code for your whole map or any single landmark — and let visitors share landmarks from the map itself.

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Search & places

Add images and logos to place cards

The three image slots on a landmark — thumbnail, main image and logo — what each one does, and the settings that show or hide them.

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Search & places

How map search works

What the search box at the top of your map matches on, the built-in synonyms, exact-name shortcuts, and the settings that shape it.

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Search & places

Make your places easy to find in search

The three things a search actually reads — names, categories and descriptions — and how to write each so visitors find the right place first time.

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Recent searches and browsing every place

How the search box remembers the last places a visitor opened, how they clear that history, and how browsing the whole list works.

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Set up the More button

Give a place card a link out — to a website, menu or booking page — rename the button, and choose whether it opens in a new tab.

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Search & places

The place-card Share button

How the Share control on a place card works, the options it offers, how to switch it on, and how to point every share link at your own website.

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Search & places

What's on a place card

A tour of the popup card visitors see when they open a place — the icon or logo, image, categories, description, and the Directions, More and Share buttons.

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When a search finds nothing: View All and recents

What visitors see when a search returns no matches, how the View All button gets them back to the full list, and why recent places reappear at a dead end.

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Write great place descriptions

The description does double duty — it's what visitors read on the card and part of what search finds. How to write it, format it, and keep it working for both.

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