What the map shows
The pins on the Map, what their colours mean, and the buttons around them.
Pins
Tap Map in the row of tabs. The map shows your community's posts:
- Green pins: Offers.
- Orange pins: Needs.
- Purple pins with a calendar: events that have not finished yet.
A pin shows the post's category picture. Where many pins are close together, they join into a circle with a number. Events join the same circles as Offers and Needs, and the number counts them too. The circle is blue on the phone and dark grey in the web app.
People and groups are not on the map. In the web app, an enterprise that has set a place shows as a square pin with its picture. Tap it to open the enterprise.
Polls are not on the map either. The one exception is on the phone, in the global community, where a poll can show as a pin at its poster's area. It looks like an orange Need pin, and shows only under All.
Tapping a pin
- An Offer or a Need: a card shows the title and who posted it. Tap View Details to open it. On the phone, tap their name to see their profile. Tap the map or ✕ to close the card.
- An event: a card shows when and where, and how many are going. Tap View event. In the web app the button is View Details, and you can also tap Going or Interested on the card.
Tapping a circle
A tap on a circle zooms in until its pins part. The zoom stops with a few streets still in view, so you are never left too deep to find the other pins.
If the pins are on one spot, or too close together for that zoom to part them, the tap opens a list instead, with how many are there at the top. On the phone that means within about 30 metres, and about 40 metres in the web app. Events come first, soonest at the top, then Offers and Needs, newest first. The list shows only what the filters show.
Tap a row to open that post. The list takes the bottom third of the map, with the circle still in view above it. Tap ✕ or the map to close it.
You don't have to tap. If you zoom in as far as a tap would take you and a circle that can't part is near the middle of the map, its list opens by itself once the map stops moving. It closes by itself when you zoom out or move the circle away. If you closed it, it stays closed until you have moved away from that spot. A card left open from a pin that is no longer in view closes to make way for the list. A card from a pin you can still see stays.
Filters
The phone and the web app have the same filters, at the top of the map:
- All, Offers, Needs or Events. Tap ✕ to clear.
- All Categories to show one category. It sits under All, Offers and Needs.
- Under Events, the date chips: All (All events in the web app), Today, This weekend or Next 7 days. The map moves to fit them.
Buttons on the left
- On the phone, the moon or sun: a dark or light map.
- The target: show where you are. The first time, the app asks for permission to use your location.
- + and −: zoom.
The dashed line shows the area your community serves.
Adding a post from the map
Tap + ADD POST. In the web app, tap the round + at the bottom right. See "Posting an Offer or a Need".
Related
- Where your pin goesWho sees where your posts and events are, and how to keep your home private.
- Finding things near youShow only posts within a distance of you, or of any place you choose.
- EventsCreate an event, in a place or online, once or repeating; say you are going, be reminded, share it, and run it as the host.
- Posting an Offer or a NeedPut up something you can do or give, or something you are looking for.
The same guide is in the BeanPool app, and works there without a connection: open Settings, then "Help & how it works" under BeanPool. Every other rule, guide and manual is in the Help Centre. Guide version 165.