Map View

Map View plots your events, spans, and eras on a real-world map using their coordinates, as an alternative to the timeline canvas. It's off by default and opt-in per timeline.

Map View currently renders with Leaflet. This may switch to MapLibre in the future, which could affect timelines using a custom map tile URL.

On the map:

• Each element appears as a marker, colored to match its own color, or its parent span's color for an event that belongs to one.
• Right-click empty map area to create a new event, span, or era at that location, the same as right-clicking the canvas.
• Selecting an element elsewhere (the sidebar list, search, a filter) flies the map to it.
• Scroll to zoom and drag to pan. Hold Alt while scrolling to pan instead, or Ctrl/Cmd while scrolling to zoom.

Enabling Map View

Open the timeline menu (chevron next to the timeline title) and go to Settings. Turn on Map View - this adds a Coordinates field to every event, span, and era, and unlocks a Maps section further down in Settings for the options below. Once enabled, a map/timeline toggle appears in the button bar at the top-right of the canvas, next to the zoom controls. See Interface.

Setting Coordinates

Edit any event, span, or era and enter a latitude and longitude in the Coordinates field. Elements without coordinates simply don't appear on the map. Use the has:coords filter to see which elements still need coordinates - see Searching.

Map Settings

With Map View enabled, the Maps section in Settings has:

• Custom map tile URL - point to your own tile server using {z}, {x}, and {y} placeholders. Leave blank to use OpenStreetMap. See the list of alternate raster tile providers for other options.
• Only show markers active at the current date - limits the map to elements whose date (or date range) covers whatever point the canvas scrubber is currently on.
• Marker style - choose Pin, Circle, Square, Diamond, or Triangle separately for events, spans, and eras. Events default to Pin, spans to Circle, and eras to Diamond.