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Saved places

Signed-in users can keep their own places on the map. The Save button on any place card adds that place to a list, and the Saved panel — opened from the hamburger menu — is where those places live. Saving is tied to your account, so your lists follow you across devices.

Lists and labels​

The Saved panel has two tabs:

  • Lists — collections of places. Every account starts with three built-in lists: Favorites, Want to go, and Starred places. You can also create your own lists, give them a name and an emoji icon, and add or remove places from a list's detail view. Each saved place can carry a free-text note.
  • Labeled — single, named places for fast recall, such as Home and Work. Labeled places are set from the Add a label row on a place's Overview tab, and they surface near the top of search.

Exporting a list​

Any list can be exported to a standard geographic file, so you can take your places to another tool — a GPS device, a hiking app, Google Earth, or an OSM editor:

FormatBest forFile
GPXGPS devices and outdoor apps (OsmAnd, Organic Maps…).gpx
GeoJSONWeb maps, GIS tools, and scripting.geojson
KMLGoogle Earth and Google My Maps.kml

Open the Saved panel, go to the Lists tab, open a list, then use the list's overflow (⋮) menu and choose Export as GPX, Export as GeoJSON, or Export as KML. The file downloads named after the list (for example favorites.gpx).

Each exported place includes its name and coordinates, plus its address and note where you've set them (these become the description in GPX and KML). GeoJSON additionally preserves OpenMapX's internal place ID in the feature properties.

What exports — and what doesn't

Export covers the places in a single list. Labeled places (Home, Work) and exporting every list at once aren't part of export yet.

Export is server-side and dependency-free — it reads your own saved places and runs the converters in the API, so it works on any deployment that has the user database, with no extra service or credentials.