Mapus is an open source tool to explore and annotate collaboratively on a map. You can draw, add markers, lines, areas, find places to go, observe other users, and much more.
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! 💜
@alyssaxuu
Hi Alyssa. I am Marleybongwe
I really love what you have done with this platform. For the fact that it is a doppelgänger of my App“Pagiis”. The app(Pagiis) uses real-time location to allow users to connect and share useful information from any location at anytime.
I will say this out loud. I would love to see if these two ideas were to be Intergrated what would be end product. I see a great potential here. I see the future of networking.
Please check out the app on Google plays store
https://play.google.com/store/ap...
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