Places.com makes it easier to locate places, find out more about them, remember them, get directions, post pictures, and attach notes for reference later. Places.com remembers important place specific details, keeping you organized and saving you time.

To find out about a place, you need to reach the map screen of the place. From the map screen, you can see a map to the place, see what’s nearby, read what Google and Yelp have to say about the place, get directions, call the place, email the place’s location to someone or save it in your database.

There are several ways to get to a map screen depending on what you’re looking for and where you are. The following picture illustrates how to reach a map screen and the map screen functions.

Places.com uses the geocoordinates of the place to retrieve most information. It uses your geolocation to determine the map and directions from your current location to the place.

Finding a Place

Most of the times to find out about a place you start from the Places page.

This is a screen capture. Click black bar on right to open working web app.

From the Places page you find out about a place by: 1. Tapping the (My Location) button. 2. Entering an address or landmark name, 3. Tapping a place on the places page from your personal database.

For more on finding a place, see the Find a Place section.

Map Screen

The map screen provides access to all the information available about the place you selected.

The screen shot on the left shows an example map screen. The rows of gray buttons are map screen functions associated with this location. Tapping the Address reveals the private check-in history and notes for the place. The buttons available depend on how much information is available about the place and how far away it is from your current location.

For more information, see the Map Screen section.

Save Place

Places in your personal database can be added or updated by tapping the Save or Edit above the map screen for the place. Each field can be modified. Updating each field is described below.

Change Icon: To select from a predefined set of icons, 1. tap the Change Icon button. 2. Select an icon category. 3. Scroll left or right within a category. 4. Tap on the chosen icon. Set Default Home: Tap to enable. Uncheck check box to disable. Google Place: To set the Google Place this place is attached to, 1. Tap Google Place, 2. Search to find the place, 3. Tap the place to select or unselect. Title: Tap to open. Type to add or update the name of the place. Description: Tap to open. Type to add or change a short description for the place. Category: Tap to open. Type to add or update the name of the place category for this place. Typing in the name of a category that doesn’t exist will add the category to the Places screen. Phone: Tap to open. Type to add or update the phone number for the place. A phone number will cause a phone number button to appear on the map screen. URL: Tap to open. Type to add or update a website URL for the place. This will cause a browser button to appear on the map page. Address: Tap to open. Type in the correct address. The geocoordinates for the place will update to what Google believes the latitude and longitude are for the place. This is useful if you want the address displayed for the record to be the same as the postal address. Coordinates: Tap to open. Use the zoom buttons, satellite view and the arrow buttons to adjust the latitude and longitude to exactly your liking. This is useful for making sure driving directions lead you to the entrance of the parking ramp instead of the walk-up or postal address.

For more information on saving and updating a place in your personal database, see the Saving a Place section.

Pictures

Places.com provides the ability to upload and save pictures about a place. You can set pictures you upload to be visible only to yourself, to people in your contacts, or to the public.

1. Tap Pictures at the top of the map screen. 2. To upload a new picture, tap the Upload Picture button. 3. To review, update or delete an existing picture, tap the picture.

For more detailed information on uploading and editing pictures, see the Pictures section.

Shortest-Route

Tapping the Route button on the Places page will list the places in order of the shortest path. The Show Map button replaces the New Address button.

In this example, 8 places of a route have been specified as summarized above the map. The total travel distance is shown as 38 miles from start to finish. Driving time (only) would be about 1 and 1/2 hours. You need to add how much time you spend at each place because this estimate assumes zero stopover time. If the travel mode (in Preferences) is set to bicycling or walking, the travel time parameter will indicate Bicycling or Walking instead of Driving. The map displays each point in order of visit.

Tapping the left edge of a place displays a map and turn-by-turn traveling directions to the next place. For more information on entering and following a route, see the Shortest Route section.