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Places and Search

Places are the building blocks of your trip. You can add them by searching, pasting a URL, entering coordinates, or importing a file.

Places sidebar

Adding a place

Click + Add Place at the top of the Places sidebar to open the Place form. You can also right-click anywhere on the map to create a place at that exact location — the address is reverse-geocoded and pre-filled automatically.

Searching for a place

Type in the search box at the top of the form. After 2 or more characters, with a 300 ms debounce, suggestions appear in a dropdown.

  • Use ↑ / ↓ to navigate results, Enter to select, Esc to dismiss.
  • Search results are biased toward the geographic center of your existing trip places. When those places span more than ~500 km, the bias is skipped.

With a Google Maps API key

Admin: A Google Maps API key is configured in User-Settings.

When a key is present, the autocomplete uses the Google Places API, which can return ratings, opening hours, photos, and phone numbers from Google's database.

Without a Google Maps API key

TREK falls back to OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) automatically — no API key needed. A notice appears above the search box explaining that OpenStreetMap is in use and that photos, ratings, and opening hours are unavailable. Results include name, address, and coordinates.

Pasting a Google Maps URL

Paste a maps.app.goo.gl/…, goo.gl/maps/…, or maps.google.*/… URL directly into the search box and press the search button. TREK resolves it server-side and populates the name, address, and coordinates.

Entering coordinates manually

Type or paste a lat, lng pair (e.g. 48.8566, 2.3522) into the Latitude field. TREK detects the comma-separated pair and fills both coordinate fields at once.

Place fields

Field Notes
Name Required
Description Free text
Notes Free text, max 2 000 characters
Address Free text
Latitude / Longitude Decimal degrees
Category Pick an existing category or type a new name to create one inline (default color #6366f1, icon MapPin)
Start time / End time Shown only when editing an existing place
Website URL
File attachments Images or PDFs — click the Paperclip icon or paste from the clipboard

Two inline warnings are shown when editing times: one if the end time is set to a value before or equal to the start time, and one if the times overlap with another place already assigned to the same day.

Importing multiple places

Drag a .gpx, .kml, or .kmz file onto the Places sidebar to import all waypoints or features at once. You can also import a saved-list share URL using the Import list button in the sidebar header — both Google Maps and Naver Maps list URLs are supported.

Admin: Google Maps API key is set in User-Settings. Without it, OSM search is used automatically.

See also: Day-Plans-and-Notes · Map-Features · Tags-and-Categories