Pin map maker
Drop pins on trips, customers or events anywhere in the world, name each one and download the map. Free, no sign-up.
A pin map marks the places that matter to you: the stops of a trip, the towns your customers write from, the venues of a tour. The editor above opens on the pin map template, the world with eight red pins from Vancouver to Auckland. Drag them, delete them or add your own, give each one a name, and the map is yours. It takes a few minutes, with nothing to install and no account.
What people pin
Travel is the classic: the cities of a year away, the stops of a round-the-world trip, the places on a list for next summer. A pin for each, named and in one colour, makes a map for a blog post, a photo book or a frame by the door.
Small businesses and clubs pin people rather than places: where customers order from, where members live, the schools that took part in a competition. Pins can mark one-off events too, such as the dates of a band's tour or the venues of a conference series, with the date in each label.
Pins are not only for cities. Walkers mark summits and trailheads, birdwatchers mark sightings, and researchers mark field sites or survey points. Families pin where relatives were born for a family history, and couples pin the church, the hotel and the station for wedding guests.
Placing and styling pins
Find a city on the Items tab of More is the quickest way in: type a few letters, pick the city, and a named pin appears. For anywhere else, pick the pin tool in Tools and click the spot; hold Shift to drop several in a row.
In a pin's settings you choose its name, whether it shows as a marker or a dot, its icon, colour and size, and the side its label sits on. Use one colour for places you have been and another for places still to come, or a larger pin for the place that matters most. With a lot of pins, mark the key ones as Important so their labels win when space runs short. For a long list with coordinates, paste it on the Data tab and choose Locations.
How to do it in MapMaker
- Click a red pin and choose Remove to clear the example cities you do not need.
- Type a place into Find a city on the Items tab of More, or pick the pin tool in Tools and click the map.
- Click each pin to set its name and colour, and choose More… for its icon and size.
- Add a title on the Canvas tab, such as the name of the trip or the event.
- Choose Download and save the map as a PNG for sharing or a PDF for print.
Where to go next
The pin map template is the starting map above. To join the pins with lines in the order you travelled, use the route map generator; for a map of offices or stores, start from the map with cities generator.
Questions people ask
How do I drop a pin on a place that is not a city?
Pick the pin tool in Tools and click the spot on the map: a beach, a trailhead, a campsite or a field site. Then type your own name for it in the pin's settings, so the label says what the place is.
Can I give each pin its own colour or icon?
Yes. Click a pin to change its colour on the card, or choose More… for its icon, a marker or a dot, its size and where its label sits. Mark one as Important and its label is placed before the others.
How many pins can I add?
By hand, one click on the map for each pin. From a spreadsheet, the Data tab adds up to 500 pins in one go from columns of latitude and longitude, with a name column for the labels.
Which file formats can I download?
A PNG or JPG for a post, a slide or a message to friends, an SVG for a design tool, or a PDF on A4, Letter or A3 for a printed handout or a frame on the wall.