A personal world map, studded with your own pins
Drop pins on a real world map for the places you've been, want to go, or want to remember - each with a note and an optional photo. Turn on the journey path and every place you've visited connects with a curved, animated line that traces the real great-circle route across the globe.
Search any address or place name to drop a pin with Nominatim geocoding, or click straight on the map (Leaflet with OpenStreetMap tiles) - no need to know coordinates.
Turn on "Show journey path" and every visited pin connects with a curved, marching-ants animated line drawn using real great-circle geometry - the true shortest curved path over a globe, not a naive straight line through the earth.
Attach one photo per pin - automatically resized and compressed in your browser before it's stored - plus a note up to 500 characters. Click a photo to view it full-size in a lightbox.
Favourite, memory, visited, want to go, recommend, or other - each its own colour on the map and in the legend, so your whole collection reads at a glance without opening a single pin.
Farthest and nearest pin pairs, a bounding box and centre point, counts by category and by year, and a "Copy collection as text" button - presented with animated count-up stat cards, not a flat table.
Hit 10, 25, 50 or 100 pins and a short on-screen confetti burst marks the moment - a small, optional flourish that doesn't touch your data.
Not sure where to look next? One click flies the map to a random pin from your own collection - a small nudge to revisit somewhere you'd forgotten you'd marked.
Every pin, note and photo is stored locally in your browser storage, not on a server. Only map tiles and place search go out over the internet - your collection is never uploaded anywhere.
Distinct from a route planner: this is a permanent, growing collection you add to for years - favourite restaurants, childhood homes, memories, recommendations - not an ordered plan for one upcoming trip.
Most people either keep a mental list, star places in Google Maps, or use a photo album. Here's how a dedicated personal pin atlas compares.
| Feature | Pin Collection Atlas | Google Maps saved places | A single-trip route planner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Free | Varies |
| Photo and note on every place | ✓ | ✕ (labels only) | ✕ |
| Animated journey path between visited places | ✓ (real great-circle arcs) | ✕ | ✓ (driving routes only) |
| Built for a permanent, growing collection | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ (one trip at a time) |
| Insights: farthest/nearest pin, counts by category and year | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Your data stays on your device | ✓ | ✕ (synced to your Google account) | Varies |
General comparison as of August 2026. Not affiliated with Google Maps.
No. Road Trip Route Studio plans an ordered, driveable route for a single upcoming trip. Pin Collection Atlas is a permanent, categorised, photo-and-note-annotated personal collection of places - favourite spots, memories, recommendations, places you want to go - that you add to over years, not a single journey you're about to drive.
Turn on "Show journey path" and every pin you've marked visited is connected by a curved, animated dashed line drawn using real great-circle geometry (the actual shortest curved path over a globe), not a straight line - so a route from London to Tokyo arcs realistically over the northern hemisphere instead of cutting through the Pacific.
Yes - each pin can carry one photo, automatically resized and compressed in your browser before it's stored, plus a note up to 500 characters. Click a pin's photo to view it full-size in a lightbox.
Yes. The map is Leaflet with OpenStreetMap tiles, and place search uses the free Nominatim geocoder - the same free, public map services used across Metre2's other map-based apps. The app itself is free.
Every pin, note and photo is stored locally on your device only. Only map tiles and place search go out over the internet - your pins, notes and photos are never uploaded anywhere.
Hit 10, 25, 50 or 100 pins and the app marks it with a short on-screen confetti celebration - a small, optional flourish, not something that affects your data.