Using the Trip Map

What the Map Shows

The Map tab visualizes your trip's itinerary geographically. Opening it takes you to a Google Map centered on the trip's destination, zoomed to fit all events with locations.

On the map you'll see:

• Pins for every event that has a location
• Dashed lines connecting the start and end of travel events (flights, drives, train rides, etc.)
• Native Google Places POIs — the little icons Google Maps shows for restaurants, hotels, attractions, and so on

The map uses the trip's primary timezone for displaying event times.

Adding an Event from a Place on the Map

One of the most useful features of the Map tab is that you can click any place of interest Google shows — a restaurant, a hotel, an attraction — and add it to your calendar without leaving the map.

1. Click any POI icon or labeled place on the map.
2. An info window opens with the name, address, and an Add Event to Calendar button.
3. Click the button. The Add Event drawer opens pre-filled with:
   • The place's name as the title
   • Its location as the event location
   • An inferred event type based on Google's categorization (restaurant → Food, hotel → Accommodation, museum → Attraction, etc.)
   • The trip's guests pre-selected
4. Pick a date and time (the drawer opens with empty time fields since the POI click doesn't know when you'll visit).
5. Click Save Event.

The event appears on the calendar and a pin drops on the map.

Viewing Event Details from the Map

Click any pin on the map to open its info window with the event title, time, and details. From there you can open the full event drawer.

Route Visualization for Travel Events

When a travel event (flight, car, boat, train, walk) has both a starting point and a destination, Plan Harmony draws a dashed polyline between the two pins.

This is especially helpful for:

• Multi-city trips — see the shape of your journey at a glance
• Long-haul flights — the line uses great-circle geometry so it follows the actual flight path
• Road trips — visualize each leg of a driving route

For travel events with only one endpoint (a start but no destination, or vice versa), only the single pin appears; no line is drawn.

Tips

• Use the map for discovery. Zoom in on the destination neighborhood and click around. Restaurants you didn't know about, museums near your hotel, and local attractions all surface in the native Google layer.
• Check geography before booking. If you're about to book a hotel, drop a pin for it on the map and see how close it is to your other activities before committing.
• Verify addresses. The map is the fastest way to sanity-check an event location. If the pin lands somewhere unexpected, the location is probably wrong — open the event and re-pick it from the Places autocomplete.
• Mobile-friendly. The Map tab works on phones. You can plan on the fly while you're actually traveling, using your phone's GPS to orient yourself.