How to add a place from a Google Maps link
A stop can get its location two ways: pick the point on Ntripi's own map, or paste a Google Maps link and let Ntripi read the coordinates out of it. The second is usually faster, because you have probably already found the place there.
Paste a Google Maps link#
In the stop's location field, switch to the link option and paste the URL. Ntripi extracts the coordinates and keeps the link, so the stop shows a small map preview and you can open the place in Maps later.
Both the long desktop URL and the short share link work. Only Google Maps addresses are accepted — a link to anywhere else is refused rather than stored and quietly ignored.
Or drop the pin yourself#
Switch to coordinates and open the map picker. Pan and zoom to the spot, and the pin in the centre is what gets saved.
This is the better option for a place with no Maps entry — a viewpoint, a trailhead, a beach with no name.
Centring the map on where you are#
The locate button centres the map on your current position, which saves scrolling across a continent to find the town you are standing in.
It asks for location permission the first time. Refusing does not block anything — the map simply opens somewhere else and you pan to where you want. See what permissions Ntripi asks for.
Opening a stop in your maps app#
A stop with a location offers to open in whichever maps app you have installed, so you can get directions on the day without retyping anything.
Ntripi's own map is for reading the plan; your maps app is for walking it.