Map users lack control over labels, pins, and layers
People using maps for games, research, and creative projects want to add their own context or control what a map displays. Requests include persistent pins on game maps, custom pins on image maps, cleaner labels, and clearer location information, but mainstream map tools do not cover all these needs. A flexible annotation workspace could serve many of them, though some requests—such as automated GeoGuessr meta detection—would require separate, specialized features.
For people who annotate, research, or customize maps. Mentioned from Jul 2024 to Aug 2026 on GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
7 different people described this problem in 7 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 2.0/10
- Pain
- 5.1/10
- Frequency
- 7.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 4.7/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
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I am looking for an android app that can: - detect if a game is running - read the screen to know if the game map is opened, we can set hints like the compass picture - let we place pins on the map with a title and expansible into detailed anotation
Having a local map as a image and the possibility to show pin on it using, let me say, "fake" coordinates will be great
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