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Trip guide

Use the trip map

Search in trip context, inspect place details, recenter intentionally, and understand route anchors.

Last verified 2026-07-30

The trip map gives geographic context to the overview route and to the stops within a selected day.

Search in trip context

The map search ranks results around the current trip context rather than your physical location. Depending on the current view, Platix uses the selected stop, the selected day, or the visible map center as a location bias.

Search bias improves ranking but does not restrict results to that area. Include a city or country in the query when a name is ambiguous.

Select a stop

Selecting a stop in the left panel recenters the trip map and opens the same rich place detail used in Explore. The detail can include address, opening status, opening hours, website, phone, rating, and media when Google provides them.

Dragging the map does not trigger automatic recentering. Platix recenters only after an intentional place or stop selection.

Understand the overview route

For each day, the overview route prefers:

  1. The day's accommodation stop.
  2. The last located stop when there is no accommodation.
  3. The saved overnight location as a fallback.

This keeps route lines useful even when lodging has not been added yet.

Map controls

Use the Map/Satellite control in the top-right corner to switch layers. The scale ruler estimates distances at the current zoom level. It is an estimate, not a route distance.

Add a place from the map

Select a point of interest or search result to inspect its details. From the detail, add it as a stop on the appropriate day. The selected Place ID and rich details are saved with the stop.

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