# Pin places on a map

> Mark locations on a real map with the Pin Maps component: generate pins with AI, add markers with icons and notes, show a listing sidebar and change the map style.

Source: https://mockflow.com/docs/pin-places-on-a-map

The **Pin Maps** component puts a real, zoomable map on your MockFlow board with a pin for each place that matters: stores and offices, venues for a trip, schools in a district or spots for a pop-up. Each pin can carry an icon and a note, so the map reads as a plan, right beside the lists and timelines that go with it.

![A Pin map of a city with five pins for stores, the head office and a warehouse, and a listing sidebar of the locations](https://assets.mockflow.com/docs/media/e8af550a476e4b59b81b7f70ffbdc546.webp)

## Generate a map with AI

1. Click **Add anything** (the plus button) in the toolbar at the bottom of the board and choose **Pin Maps**.
2. With the map selected, click the AI button on the left of its toolbar and choose **Generate new**.
3. Describe the places, for example "Our five stores in Seattle, the head office and the warehouse", and click **Generate**. **Examples** offers more ideas.

**Modify with AI** adds or changes pins with a prompt, and **Convert to** turns the map into another kind of item, such as a table of the locations.

## Add a marker

![The Add Marker menu over a pin map, with numbered markers on the location field, the pin icons and the Add Marker button](https://assets.mockflow.com/docs/media/d8863a9f92a34734a6ce010afb8bd956.webp)

Click **Add Marker** in the map's toolbar.

1. Type a place in **Enter location**, such as a city, an address or a landmark. Add a note in **Marker Info** if you like.
2. Pick an icon for the pin, such as **Store**, **Office**, **Home**, **School** or **Hotel**, or enter your own emoji.
3. Click **Add Marker** to drop the pin on the map.

Click a pin to **Edit Marker** or **Delete this Marker**. **Clear All Markers** empties the map.

## Change how the map looks

- **Marker Listing:** **Show Listing Sidebar** lists every pin next to the map, with its note.
- **Change Map Style:** light, dark and other map styles.
- **Change Map Projection:** a flat map or a globe.
- **Toggle Map Labels** and **Reset Zoom:** hide place names, or zoom back out to fit all the pins.

Click **Interact with Component** (the hand button) to pan and zoom the map on the board.

> **Plan** The Pin Maps component is available on every plan. Generating with AI uses AI credits. See [MockFlow pricing](https://mockflow.com/pricing/).

## Next steps

- [Color regions on a map](/docs/color-regions-on-a-map)
- [Organize information in a table](/docs/organize-information-in-a-table)