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Let an AI assistant build the map

You do not have to place every Anchor Point by hand. Build a map with your AI at friendtrack.net/build-with-ai gives you a prompt to paste into your own assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, or any capable one — and it does the upload, the calibration and the Areas of Interest through the FriendTrack API.

This is an alternative to the whole arc, not a replacement for understanding it: you still review what comes out, and the pages on calibration are what tell you whether it did a good job.

How it works

  1. Open the page and use Copy prompt.
  2. Paste it into a fresh chat with your assistant, and fill in the last line with the venue you want — and attach or link the image if you already have one.
  3. The assistant reads FriendTrack’s own guide for assistants and follows it end to end.
  4. When it asks, read back the one six-digit code FriendTrack texts to your phone. That is the only code needed for the whole build.
  5. It uploads your image, calibrates it with Anchor Points, verifies the calibration, and draws the Areas of Interest.
  6. The finished Map appears in your Maps list, ready to review or publish.

⚠️ What the code you read out actually grants

This is the part to understand before you do it, because reading a sign-in code to anything is a thing to be careful about.

Relaying that code hands the assistant a maps-only key that lasts about 24 hours. With it, the assistant can create and edit your maps, and:

  • it cannot see your contacts, your Groups or your friends;
  • it cannot see anyone’s live Position (what other apps call your location);
  • it cannot change your account or sign in anywhere else;
  • the key expires on its own after about a day, and there is no renewal.

So it is narrower than a normal sign-in, deliberately. Still, treat the code like any sign-in code: read it out only to an assistant you trust, and only while you are actually building a map. If somebody asks you for a FriendTrack code in any other context, that is not this.

What you still have to do yourself

  • Supply a usable image, and check it. The guide tells the assistant to check with you before using any image, and to use only a geometrically faithful one. Why that matters is choose and prepare a venue image — an assistant cannot rescue a photograph taken at an angle any more than you can.
  • Check the calibration. Read the Calibration Quality figure and the heat map afterwards, the same way you would for a Map you made by hand: read the accuracy heat map.
  • Decide about publishing. Nothing is submitted to the catalog on your behalf — keep it private, or list it publicly.

When to use it, and when not to

Worth it for a venue where you have an image and a rough idea of the landmarks, and would rather not click forty Areas of Interest by hand.

Not worth it for a small Map you could draw in ten minutes, or where the coordinates are the hard part — an assistant has the same problem you do: what you need before you start.

Review it either way. The result is a Map with your name on it, and a badly calibrated Map puts real people in the wrong place at a real venue.