Pick an Area, or drop an exact spot

The Meeting Point picker offers two ways to say where. They behave the same once set; what differs is how the place is described to everybody else.

Pick an Area of Interest

The picker opens on the Map’s named places — a stage, a bar, a lift station, a car park — with a search box above them. Tapping one puts the Meeting Point there, and the notification everybody gets names it: near Beer Garden.

Use this when the Map has a name for where you mean. A name survives being read out, retyped and remembered in a way that a spot on a picture does not, and somebody who has not opened the app yet can still act on the beer garden.

Drop a pin on the map

Tap 📍 Drop a pin on the map…, then tap the spot. This is the option for anywhere the Map’s creator did not name — the third tree past the sound desk, the corner of a field, one particular entrance of a large building.

Use this when precision matters more than the name. The notification can then only say that the Meeting Point moved, without a place to name, so it is worth saying in words where you mean as well.

If the search finds nothing

No areas match your search means this Map has no Area by that name — not that the place does not exist. Clear the search to see the full list, or drop a pin instead. Which Areas a Map has is up to whoever made it, and no two venues are drawn to the same level of detail.

Which to prefer

Situation	Use
The Map names the place	An Area of Interest
A large Area and you mean one end of it	Drop a pin
Somewhere the Map does not name	Drop a pin
You will also say it out loud or in a message	An Area of Interest

Where the Area has floors, you can pin the Meeting Point to one of them — pin a Meeting Point to a floor.