Google Maps is so reliant on pins that it uses one for its app icon. ... To help you scout out a particular place before you visit it, or to check the details of a road junction.

I left after three years but he stayed on for 14 – and today his map is sagging with great ropes of cotton, groaning with pins, a testament to the 135 countries he's visited and the 1.5 million ...

Pin important places on a map with My Maps. Jack Wallen. Updated Wed, April 1, 2015 at 11:30 AM UTC. ... You can now open that layer on the map and pin whatever locations you want to it.

Oh, the places you’ll go, and the places you’ve been. Show off your travels or plan a future excursion with a set of brand-new map pins. Not that you need to limit yourself to maps: Available ...

Starting today on the Pinterest app for iOS, place Pins will be able to provide directions to pinned locations via Google Maps. Location info, available through either Google Maps or Apple Maps ...

However, we recently saw Google Maps testing a new circular icon, replacing conventional pin-shaped ones for saved places. On Google Maps, you can save places of interest in multiple custom lists ...

It also incorporates your photos: red pins indicate a geotagged photo, which appears on screen when you hover over the pin. As to what constitutes a “place” visited, you decide: the “place ...

Now Pinterest will let you attach pins to a map, showing exactly where you can find the real thing. The feature is called “place pins,” and you can use them by creating a “place board.” ...

Each city is then listed along with the number of places and how long ago your most recent visit was that Maps recorded. When you tap on a city, it will show you locations in chronological order ...